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the 30tli of September; they measured sixty busliels and one 

 peck. The expense, I think, will not exceed twelve dollars. 



Statement of Silvamis Ilinkley. 



The acre of land on which I raised the crop of oats entered 

 by me for premium, is a gravelly loam ; I have planted it with 

 corn the two past years, spreading on about thirty loads of 

 compost manure, each year. Last spring, I put on about fifteen 

 loads of manure, one-half before ploughing, and the other half, 

 after. I ploughed the last of ]\rarcli, and the 3d of April 

 sowed four bushels of oats, and harrowed them in. The half 

 acre I put the manure on after ploughing, I think was the best; 

 the straw was much the largest. Harvested in August, and 

 threshed and measured up fifty-nine bushels and three pecks. 



BEANS. 



NORFOLK. 



Statement of Benjamin N. Sawin. 



The half acre of white beans which I offer for premium was 

 raised on soil of a light, sandy loam, which has been improved 

 as a pasture for nineteen years, without any cultivation. In 

 November, 1852, it was ploughed for the purpose of killing out 

 the bushes, (consisting of white birch, sage willow, &c. ;) the 

 1st of June last it was harrowed with a cultivator harrow 

 across the furrows, and furrowed with a plough, one way, three 

 feet apart; I then applied one and a half cords of unfermented 

 manure, taken from the barn cellar, put half of a shovelful in 

 the hill, eighteen inches apart in the row. The beans were 

 planted the 10th of June ; put from twelve to fifteen beans in a 

 hill ; they were hoed but once. They were harvested the 1st 

 of October, and when threshed, measured eight bushels and 

 four quarts. They weighed seventy pounds to the bushel. 

 They were of the variety called the pea bean. 



