206 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



BARNSTABLE. 



Statement of R. Smith. 



I have for three years been engaged in raising the marrow- 

 fat bean, and have this year three acres in one lot. The land 

 cost, last winter, $30 per acre, and had been lying fallow for 

 twenty years. I carted fourteen horse-loads of manure to the 

 poorest spots, and ploughed May 10th ; harrowed thoroughly, 

 and stirred it with cultivator twice before planting, whicli I did 

 June 15th, with one bushel of seed to the acre. With a ma- 

 chine of my own construction, I planted two acres a day, with 

 a boy and horse. It was planted in drills, two feet apart. 

 When high enough to work, I used the cultivator between the 

 rows, and my boy followed with a hoc. I then planted turnips 

 between the rows. The beans were then left till harvest. 

 The result is stated below : — 



Estimated seventy-five bushels of beans, $2, $150 00 

 " one hundred bushels turnips, 30c., . 30 00 



$180 00 



Cost of preparing soil, seed, manure, cultivation and 



harvesting, 42 90 



Profits, $137 10 



GRASS SEED. 



HAMPSHIRE, FRANKLIN AND HAMPDEN. 



Statement of George Dickinson. 



I have raised, the past season, three buslicls and thirty-one 

 quarts of herds-grass seed on two acres and sixty-nine rods of 

 ground. A sample of the seed was exhibited at the late fair. 



The land on which the seed grew is a clayey loam, with a 

 very hard subsoil. It was ploughed in the spring of 1852 and 



