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rest was in grass. I ploughed in twenty-five cart loads per 

 acre of green manure from the barn cellar — ploughing ten 

 inches deep — and put in the hills six cart loads of manure to 

 the acre, the ground being furrowed three and a half feet apart 

 each way, and planted with eight-rowed yellow corn, from 

 North field, Mass. 



From the 16th to the 28th of May, I ploughed and planted 

 five and one half acres of Indian corn, and five and one half 

 acres of broom corn, on the island ; one half the above eleven 

 acres was a part of the fifteen acres sown to winter rye, in Sep- 

 tember previous, and the other half had the grass remaining on 

 it which grew the year previous. The rye when ploughed 

 in had just commenced heading out, and, to facilitate the 

 covering, a brush harrow was drawn over the rye before 

 ploughing. It was furrowed one way only, three feet apart, 

 and across where both rye and grass were ploughed in. It 

 was manured in the hill, with ten cart loads of compost per 

 acre, the hills in the rows being two and a half feet apart, as 

 near as we could judge. Three varieties of corn were planted, 

 viz., three and a half acres with the twelve and sixteen-rowed 

 Canada corn, one acre with the afore-named Pomeroy corn, and 

 one acre with a white corn, called in Plymouth county, the 

 Whitman corn. On that portion of the land where rye was 

 ploughed under, the corn was not as good, and the broom corn 

 not more than two thirds as good as on the other part. To 

 all the Indian corn and broom corn, I applied a small handful 

 of unleached ashes upon each hill, immediately after planting, 

 using ninety bushels on fourteen and a half acres. My Indian 

 corn, broom corn, and potatoes, were all cultivated and hoed 

 three times. 



On the 28th of April, I sowed eighty-eight square rods to 

 onions, forty-two rods on land where carrots were raised last 

 year, and forty-six rods on land which was the site of the old 

 barn and yard, and had been raised or filled up with loam and 

 soil of various qualities, from one to four feet. Both lots were 

 manured with stable manure at the rate of eight cords per acre. 

 I also raised one and a half acres of corn fodder. In August 

 last I turned over with the plough two acres of sward land on 

 my home lot, and spread forty loads of compost per acre ; sowed 



