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with a mildew or rust, and instead of one hundred and fifty bushels, 

 I raised only fifty-seven bushels. Another piece of heavy land, 

 which I planted in drills, with corn in hills, shared the same fate, 

 producing only eight bushels. My whole crop amounts to sixty-five 

 bushels of good beans, worth and engaged at two dollars per bushel. 

 At the last hoeing of the piece I sowed grass seed in the intervals, 

 which looks finely. 



From several years' experience in raising beans, I gather these 

 facts : That land for beans should be fall-fallowed or planted with 

 some other crop previously ; that the manure should be broad-cast, 

 the land planted in drills with intervals of three feet, the stalks four 

 inches apart in drills, and the beans pulled and stacked before fully 

 ripe, as first mentioned. 



The whole cost of raising the crop this year on the eight acres, 

 was as follows : 



Ploughing, 



Manure and muck, and preparing the same. 



Planting, 



Hoeing and cultivating, 



Pulling and threshing. 



Seed, 



$21 

 25 

 26 

 25 

 12 

 6 



$115 



Product — 67 bushels of beans at $2, 

 2 tons of straw at 8, 



Topsfield, September 30th, 1846. 



S114 

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— S130 



C. H. HOLMES. 



ON DOMESTIC MANUFACTURES. 



The Committee to whom was assigned the duty of examining 

 Counterpanes, Carpets and Rugs, respectfully Report : 



That they have witnessed with great satisfaction the undiminished 

 interest which the ladies of the County have taken this year, in this 

 branch of the exhibition. It is a source of much encouragement to 

 members of the Society, and others interested in its objects, that 

 while they are zealously contributing to the elevation and improve 



