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be five inches deep, and not over eleven inches wide. Deeper 

 plowing is recommended. The time varied from 40 to 50 

 minutes. 



Plymouth Agricultural Society. 



This society offered premiums for the most extensive forest 

 trees of any kind suitable for timber. These were claimable in 

 1845. Two claims were entered, and two were awarded, the 

 first to Hon. Morrill Allen of Pembroke, and the second to Mr. 

 Pardon Keith of West Bridgewater. Remarkable success seems 

 to have attended the efforts to cultivate forest trees, inasmuch as 

 the soil was perfectly worn out, and almost worthless. The 

 gr-owth has been rapid. The result of both experiments is such 

 as to demonstrate that all the sandy plains and barren fields may 

 be sown with the seed from forest trees, the white birch, white 

 and yellow pine, locust and white oak, all have succeeded. Seed 

 may be sown in the fall, and left upon the top of the soil. It is 

 said young pines are injured by pruning the living branches. 



The committee on produce awarded a premium of $15 to B. 

 Hobart, of Abingdon, for the best field of winter wheat. Produce 

 22 bushels to the acre. Land was well prepared, but the com- 

 mittee express some doubts as to. the profitableness of the crop, 

 except in rich lands. A premium was awarded to Daniel Alden, 

 of Middleborough, of $8, for oats. The yield as given under oath, 

 was 71 bushels!! to the acre. Soaked the oats 24 hours in water 

 and then rolled them in ashes. Two bushels and three pecks 

 were sown to the acre and forty-seven rods; less seed than far- 

 mers generally use. 



Three premimns were awarded on corn. The produce of the 

 first, weighed 59| lbs. to the square rod; of the second, 55| lbs.; 

 of the third, 48| lbs. to the square rod. The potato crop which 

 received the first premium, equalled 320 bushels to the acre. 



Statement of Joseph Kingman of the mode and cost of reclaiming 

 a quantity of swamp land, on which the soil or muck was from six 

 to fifteen inches deep, resting on a hard pan of gravel clay. The 

 field was stony. 



