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to let the oxen travel on the unploughed part. I planted the 

 four acres in 1847, with potatoes, and had four hundred bushels 

 of good marketable ones, and one hundred small, for the cattle, 

 and applied one cord of wool waste in the hill per acre. In 1848, 

 sowed one acre with oats and grass seed. I had a large crop of 

 oats, planted the remainder of four acres, partly with corn, and 

 partly with potatoes. I had seventy bushels of sound corn as 

 I ever raised, of a Canada kind, the potatoes yielded as well as 

 the first year ; applied twenty-two cart loads of compost ma- 

 nure per acre. 



After taking off the corn and potato crop, I seeded the three 

 acres with grass seed, and have had from four acres, as follows : — 

 The first acre, sowed in the spring of 1848, two tons of good 

 hay, and a ton and a half per acre on the remainder, the first 

 mowing. I shall have a good crop of rowen. The remaining 

 part of seven acres I had turned by a spade, at a cost of six 

 dollars per acre, and the board of a man. I brushed the piece 

 with a brush harrow, and planted the whole with potatoes. I 

 have dug, from these three acres, this season, and sold two hun- 

 dred bushels of marketable potatoes ; shall have one hundred 

 more, beside the small ones, which will amount to one hun- 

 dred more. I applied one cord of wool waste per acre. The 

 seven acres were not worth ten dollars per acre before reclaimed ; 

 are now worth as much as the best of land. 



Sudbury, September Wth, 1849. 



Stephen Morse's Statement. 



The peat, or bog meadow, to which I called your attention, 

 consists of about six acres, that has been reclaimed in the fol- 

 lowing manner : — In the fall of 1841, I commenced by cutting 

 a ditch through the centre, and then by cutting border ditches, 

 until the whole piece was thoroughly drained. A part of it 

 was covered with gravel and sand, a part with the mud taken 

 from the ditches and manured with twenty loads of compost 

 manure to the acre, and the remainder (being the greater part) 

 was bogged and burnedj and the ashes made from the turf 



