260 FRANKLIN SOCIETY. 



was a mixture of stable manure and swamp muck, in equal 

 parts, the mixture lying over one season under cover, before 

 used. The long manure was mostly brakes^ on which sheep 

 had been yarded during the winter and spring ; carted on to 

 the field, while wet, and ploughed under, with as little exposure 

 to the sun as possible. I do not consider this a large crop. I 

 have had, with the same cultivation, in favorable seasons, one 

 quarter more. 



Conway, Dec. 1850. 



» Duncan ^ Wells^s Statement. 



We have raised, the present season, on two acres and seven 

 rods of land, 2075 pounds of broom corn. 



EXPENSE OF CULTIVATION. 



Cost of land, (leased,) $5 54 per acre, 

 " ploughing, $1 per acre, 

 " ashes, 17 cents per bushel, 

 " seed, . _ - - - 



" planting, per acre, $2, - _ _ 



hoeing three times, do. do., 



harvesting, do. do., 



scraping seed, 50 cents per hundred, 



Total, - - $49 43 



OR. 



Amount for broom corn sold, at $6 per hundred, $124 50 



One hundred and fifty bushels seed, 25 cts. per bushel, 37 50 



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Total, - - $162 00 



Deduct amount of expenses, - - - 49 43 



Balance in favor of crop, - - $112 57 



The above land was sowed with oats and clover seed in 



1849, and planted with Indian corn in 1848, with manure in 

 the hill. We ploughed and planted about the 20th of May, 



1850, on ashes, without manure or plaster ; soil light. 

 Debbfjei*©, 1850, 



