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Digging out the stones and removing them, $25 00 



Sixty-five rods ditching, 12 00 



100 loads sand, and spreading, 12 00 



25 " compost, 13 00 



Grass seed, 1 50 



Sowing and bushing, 1 00 



$64 50 



The pieces contained one acre and nineteen rods; cost per acre, 

 $56.90. 



Statement of Henri/ Alden on Salt as a Manure. 



Mixed April, 1843, two small loads of barn manure, with the 

 same quantity of peat and one bushel of coarse salt. Another 

 heap mixed without the salt. These heaps were put on to two 

 pieces of land of 20 rods each, planted with corn and potatoes 

 the 18th of May. The corn failed and did not come up well. 

 The salted potatoes were dug in October, and w^eighed, making 

 14 bushels and 5 pounds. Those not salted amounted to 12 bushels 

 and 56 pounds. The next ground which was salted broad cast, 

 produced 2 bushels and 3 pecks on salted ground. On the same 

 on unsalted, but the oats were 4 pounds heavier to the bushel. 



Where grass land had been salted, the hay weighed, - - 156 lbs. 



Unsalted, 133 " 



Statement of Paul Hathaway on the Cost of Subduing a 

 Foul Pasture abounding in bushes and stones. 



12 days work with 5 yoke of oxen, $22 00 



8 days labor and 1 yoke, 12 00 



Cost the first year, $34 00 



Labor the second year, 37 00 



The whole cost of subduing 2 acres,_3 quar- 

 ters, 8 rods, $71 00 



Statement of Leonard Hill ori his Corn Crop of one acre. 



Plowed May, 1845, eight inches deep; spread 3.\ cords of good 

 stable manure, and plowed it in; then furrowed it, three feet apart; 



