178 PLYMOUTH SOCIETY. 



Thomas Weston's Statement. 



The half acre on which I had white beans, was planted to 

 corn last year. On the 20th and 21st of April last, I ploughed 

 the ground 6 or 7 inches deep. June 10th, carted on 7 loads of 

 compost manure; 11th, spread the manure, and ploughed it in 

 with a small plough, very shoal, and furrowed the ground one 

 way ; June 16th and 17th, planted the beans in hills, three feet 

 (scant) by one and a half feet apart. Put in 22 quarts of seed. 

 July 8th, hoed them, without ploughing, and left the ground 

 level. August 9th, pulled up the weeds. October 16th and 

 18th, pulled and threshed them, and there were eight bushels. 



Expenses ; ploughing the ground, $1 00 ; drawing and spread- 

 ing manure, $2 00 ; ploughing in manure and furrowing, 67 

 cents ; planting, $1 17 ; hoeing, $1 50 ; pulling weeds, 42 cents ; 

 harvesting, $3 33; seed planted, $1 37. Total, $11 46. 



Middleborough, Oct. 18, 1847. 



Orsamus Litteljohri s Statement. 



The one quarter acre entered by me for premium on carrots, 

 was in carrots last year. Soil, sandy loam. April 27th, 

 ploughing, 50 cents. April 30th, spreading, harrowing and 

 bushing in 33 horse-loads of cheap compost, $1 50 ; \ lb. seed, 

 and sowing with machine, 67 cents. May 28th and 29th, weeding 

 l\ days, $1 12. June 8th and 9th, weeding 2 days, $1 50. 23d 

 and 24th, weeding, 1£ days, $1 00. July 14th, 2 hands one 

 day, weeding, $1 50 : 17th, weeding, half day, 38 cents. Cost, 

 $8 17. 



Middleborough, Oct. 16, 1847. 



George W. Wood's Statement. 



The land I entered for premium, for the greatest crop of po- 

 tatoes, in 1847, was a loamy knoll, planted to potatoes and tur- 



