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]\rASSACnUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Expenses : — 

 80 loads of manure, 

 Cartino; and spreading manure, 

 Plou;^liing, harrowing, and furrowing, 

 Planting, and seed corn, 

 20 bushels ashes, and application, 

 Cultivating and hoeing. 

 Interest on land, .... 



Deduct half the manure and ashes, 



$74 00 



One hundred and seventy-nine and sixty-five eighty-fifths 

 bushels of corn and five loads pumpkins cannot be worth 

 mueli less than $200. The corn fodder always pays well 

 for harvesting. 



Pembuoke, Mass. 



Samuel W. Bates^ Statement. 



The three and three-fourths acres of land on which my corn was 

 raised is a sandy loam, inclining to clay. It was ploughed the 

 last of September, 1852, about seven inches deep; was mowed 

 before ploughing ; it yielded 700 lbs. of hay to the acre. About 

 the first of May I carted from the barn sixteen loads of manure, 

 made the past winter, and spread it on about one-third of the 

 piece, and ploughed it in. I then drew thirty loads of compost 

 manure from the hog-yard, of about thirty-six cubic feet to the 

 load, and spread it on the furrow, and harrowed the whole 

 piece twice. Then I spread on the whole piece 400 bushels 

 leached ashes, and bushed it over and furrowed, about three 

 feet three inches one way, and carted on twentj'-eight loads of 

 manure from the barnyard — which was very poor compost 

 manure. 



On two-thirds of the land I put two-thirds of the manure in 

 the hills, and on the other third I spread the whole, without any 

 in tlie hills. That without any in tlie hills I think the best. 

 I dropped in the hills, twenty inches apart, the 11th and J 2th 

 of May, t]iree kernels of the Whitman corn, mixed with a smaller 



