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which I keep upon my farm consists of one man twelve months, 

 and two men eight months. 



'20. I have not. 



27. 1 have made some very satisfactory experiments with 

 meadow mud, and with manure. Without going into detail, I 

 will state, in a general way, the conclusion I have come to — 

 that the exposure of manure, when placed in heaps, or spread 

 broadcast to the sun, air and frost, does not injure it, but, on the 

 contrary, is a benefit; that mud is a great fertilizer on all high 

 lands, especially if they are gravelly, but the mud must be 

 thrown up, and exposed to the air and frost a year before using, 

 in order that the green vegetable matter contained in it may 

 become pulverized. 



Littleton, September 29, 1862. 



Statement of Abiel H. Wheeler. 



1. My farm consists of one hundred and fifty acres, a portion 

 of which I have owned thirty years, and the remainder came 

 into my possession quite recently. 



2. A portion of my farm produced what would be termed a 

 middling crop ; some was old worn out land, having been 

 cropped without succession, and quite a number of acres of low 

 swampy land, covered with maple, birch, dogwood, and other 

 kindred brush, were filled with large white pine stumps ; and 

 another portion was low boggy meadow, filled with stumps, 

 skunk-cabbages, and other worthless products. The fences 

 were generally poor. 



3. Tillage, twenty-six acres ; pasture, twelve ; meadow, 

 twenty-four ; woodland, eighty-eight. 



4. Hay, thirty tons ; rye, ten bushels ; oats, thirty ; corn, 

 thirty ; potatoes, forty. 1862, hay, seventy-five tons ; oats, 

 fifty bushels; corn, one hundred; potatoes, two hundred ; roots, 

 three hundred, 



5. Corn, wheat, rye, oats and barley. 



6. Ruta-bagas, sugar beets, carrots and flat turnips. 



7. The best smooth ruta-bagas I sell, but feed all other kinds 

 to my stock. 



8. I seed land to grass in April, May, June and September; 

 sow eight pounds of red clover, ten quarts of Timothy, and one 

 bushel of redtop per acre ; and in the spring, \\\\q\\ the snow is 



