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BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



STATEMENT. 



Dr. 



Cost of haying 



Ploughing .... 



Harrowing, setting out cabbages, 



Cultivating and hoeing 



Six hundred pounds phosphate 



Stockbridge fertilizer . 



Manure and ashes 



Interest .... 



&c. 



Harvesting 



$275 50 



Cr. 



Three tons hay $48 00 



Sweet-corn sold 41 00 



Cucumbers 210 00 



Three hundred bushels rutabagas (estimate) . . 50 00 



Cabbages 105 00 



Have on hand cabbages 40 00 



Fodder 6 00 



Front 



500 00 

 224 50 



I could relate many experiments on different pieces, but 

 will let these two suffice. I have one piece of five acres, on 

 the lower part, or river-front, of the farm, which I was told 

 by my neighbors, when I bought the farm, would bear noth- 

 ing but rye. 



The piece had been sown to rye, I was told, for over 

 a hundred years. Having been owned by one family, as 

 grandfather, father, and sons, far a much longer period, they 

 would trace back the proof of the statement. I sowed it to 

 rye two years ; the largest yield being forty-eight bushels. I 

 thought that would not pay : so the next spring I decided to 

 try an experiment on this piece, and planted it to every kind 

 of seed from which I was intending to raise a crop. Manure 

 was used in the drill and hill. The result of my trial 

 showed me that it was most excellent land for corn, beans, 

 turnips, pease, carrots, &c, very good for tomatoes, squashes, 

 cabbages, potatoes, and sugar-beets, not very good for onions, 

 cucumbers, beets, and some other root-crops. 



After planting three years, I sowed a portion to grass. It 



