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viously. In the aiitumn of that year it was ploughed. The 

 soil is mostly a light yellowish loam, rather stony. The field 

 inclines very much to the east. In 1854 about one-half of it 

 was planted with corn, manured with a compost manufactured 

 out of doors, from the droppings of my cows and swine the sum- 

 mer previous, mixed with loam and weeds, together with the 

 scrapings from under an old barn, three dollars worth of ashes, 

 and six loads of stable manure, the whole mixed together in 

 the spring, spread evenly and .ploughed in. The remainder of 

 the field was manured very lightly in the hill, and planted with 

 potatoes and beans, but not ploughed at all. 



Last spring the whole field was manured with about thirteen 

 and one-half cords of compost, manufactured in my barn cellar, 

 from the droppings of one horse, two cows, two calves, and three 

 pigs, from the 10th of September, 1854, to April 1, 1855, mixed 

 with loam, weeds, and meadow-muck, together with four cords 

 manufactured in the field from the cleanings of the vault, throe 

 barrels of urine, four or five bushels of lime and ashes, in which 

 some animal matter had been dissolved, mixed with two loads 

 of hog manure, and ten loads of meadow muck, making in all 

 about seventeen and one-half cords, say fifty-two loads, spread 

 evenly and ploughed in with a side-hill plough, running from 

 eight to eleven inches deep. 



The field was harrowed once and marked one way with an 

 instrument which made five marks at once, three feet apart, and 

 on the 26th and 28th of May, three acres were planted with 

 common yellow corn, using Randall & Jones' double corn plant- 

 er, set three feet six inches wide, with which I crossed the marks, 

 giving rows both ways. When the corn came up I put a hand- 

 ful of ashes on the hills, using forty-eight bushels. I planted 

 it so deep that it did not come up well, and the worms and 

 crows worked it badly. The deficient hills I supplied with 

 beans and cabbages. 



The corn was hoed twice by myself and two men, working 

 one day each time. Previous to hoeing I ran through my horse 

 hoe, once in a row each way, it requiring, both times, one day's 

 work of myself, horse and boy, each way, or four days with a 

 horse hoe. 



I estimate the expense of cultivating the one acre as follows, 

 viz. : — 



10* 



