BEANS. 



205 



Expenses : — 

 Interest on value of land, at $30 per acre, 

 Taxes, ...... 



Harrowing, ..... 



Furrowing and applying manure, 

 Planting, ...... 



One and a half cords of manure, at $4.50, 

 Twelve and a half quarts seed. 

 Cultivating and hoeing. 

 Harvesting, ..... 



Value of the crop : — 

 Eight and one-eighth bushels of beans, at $2 



per bushel, ...... 



Four hundred and fifty pounds stover, at 



thirty cents per hundred, 

 One-half of manure unspent, 



Leaves net profit of . 



Dover, Not. 9, 1853. 



$1G 25 



1 35 

 3 37 



$13 70 



20 97 



$7 27 



PLYMOUTH. 



Statement of Abiel Bassett. 



The half acre of land on which I raised the crop of white 

 beans entered by me for premium, is a light, sandy soil. In 

 1851 I put on sixty bushels of leached ashes, and sowed it to 

 winter rye. The first of last May I spread on nineteen cart- 

 loads of stable manure, and ploughed it in; the ground was 

 well liarrowed ; furrowed two feet between furrows, and planted 

 in drills, with about three pecks of seed. 



The beans were pulled and stacked in the field until they 

 were dried ; they were then threshed, and measured seventeen 

 bushels and three pecks — making thirty-five and a half bushels 

 to the acre. 



