56 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



I began ditching in 1847, and finished in 1852. I 



began to bog in 18-48 and finished in 1853. I have 



duo: four hundred and eighteen rods of open ditch 



at a cost of 20 cents per rod, .... 



150 rods of blind ditch at 50 cents per rod, 



I have bogged 23 acres at a cost of $28 per acre. 



2 50 



In 1849, I planted five acres with potatoes. I put 

 thirteen loads of compost manure to the acre, in the 

 hill, on four and a half acres, at a cost of one dollar 

 per load, $50. I dug the potatoes the last of 

 August, and the first of September, which I sold on 

 the ground for $85 an acre, .... 425 00 



I calculated I lost eighteen barrels, besides, by rot. 

 In 1850, 1 planted eight and a-half acres of potatoes. 

 I manured four and a half acres with compost man- 

 ure, twenty loads to the acre, cost one dollar per 

 load. I sold the same in June, as they were, for 

 fifty dollars an acre, . . . . . . 425 00 



I planted half an acre with corn, put on seven loads 

 of compost manure in the hill, had twenty bushels 

 of corn, 20 00 



$445 00 



In 1851, I planted two and a half acres with corn. 

 Spread on twenty loads of compost manure to the 

 acre, cost one dollar per load. I had forty-five 

 bushels of good sound corn to the acre, . . 112 00 



Cows' fodder, ten dollars per acre, . . . . 20 00 



Planted seven and a half acres with potatoes without 

 any manure, which I sold on the ground, after being 

 dug, for eighty dollars an acre, .... GOO 00 

 I calculated I lost besides, by rot, ten barrels. 



In the fall of 1850, I sowed down six and a half acres 

 to grass, with half a peck of herds-grass and one 

 peck of redtop to the acre. This fall I cut twelve 



