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last spring brought to the surface 1| inches more of the sub-soil 

 than had ever before been brought to light, and still its pro- 

 ducts have been more than 65 bushels of corn to the acre — by no 

 means a large crop, but a remunerating one. My object in 

 planting this lot, was to prepare the land for an apple orchard 

 and a carrot crop next year. After sinking the large stones on 

 this lot, I intend manuring as usual, and ploughing full ten 

 inches, and putting it to carrots and other roots. 



The under drains in my barn lot have worked wonderfully ; 

 the water that came near drowning out the brakes in that lot 

 near the surface, now runs freely underneath, and has given 

 place to full 60 bushels of corn, and 300 bushels of turnips per 

 acre. 



The 130 rods of drains on the two acre lot that your com- 

 mittee saw when here, have been nearly filled with small stones, 

 with an open drain at the bottom. The water has been running 

 freely in all of them for the last three weeks, to the utter sur- 

 prise of many of our oldest men, who had known the land for 

 many years before. 



Sutton, 1849. 



William S. Lincoln's Statement. 



The one-quarter acre of carrots, entered by me for the socie- 

 ty's premium, was harvested the 29th of October, yielding by 

 weight, at fifty pounds to the bushel, (the whole crop having 

 been weighed) 9,228 pounds, or 184 bushels and twenty-eight 

 pounds. 



The land on which the crop was grown, was " plain land," 

 naturally light, but good — artificially poor, having been ex- 

 hausted by long continued cropping. In the spring of 1848, it 

 was ploughed and planted to potatoes, buckwheat, and corn 

 drilled for fodder. These seeds were put into the ground with- 

 out manure — the potatoes, because I was anxious to avoid the 

 rot, then so prevalent — the buckwheat, because it needed none, 

 and the corn, because I had none for it. The crop of potatoes 

 was light, but sound, of corn and buckwheat, fair. In the 

 spring of the present year, the land was ploughed as deep as 

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