262 FRANKLIN SOCIETY. 



Aaron Buddington's Statement. 



Previous condition of the land was good ; the soil loamy, 

 from eighteen inches to two feet deep, underlaid by hard pan ; 

 part of the land had carrots on it the last year, the rest corn. 



Manured with about fifteen loads of barn yard manure, 



worth one dollar per load, _ _ _ 



Seed, one pound orange carrots, . - - 



Ploughing and sowing, four days' work, 

 Weeding and thinning, fourteen do. do., 

 Harvesting, nine days, - . _ _ 



Total, - - $43 00 



I spread the manure before ploughing ; ploughed the land 

 but once, harrowed lightly, then raked the stones off, and sowed 

 with a seed sower, about eighteen inches between the rows, 

 and at the second hoeing, thinned out the carrots to about ten 

 inches apart in the row. The crop raised was three hundred 

 and fifty bushels, on eighty-four rods of land. 



Leyden, 1850. 



