310 NORFOLK SOCIETY. 



B. H. Tuhbs^s Statement. 



You wish me to give you a minute statement of the crops on 

 my bog meadow the past season. 



On the land you saw laid down to grass, I cut between 

 three and four tons of good hay, and could have cut another 

 ton of rowen, had I not chosen to feed it off. On one and a 

 half acre, sowed with grass, oats and barley, I harvested only a 

 light crop. On a corner of the land, about thirty square rods, I 

 raised about ten bushels of very good peach-bloom potatoes. 

 They were manured with compost in the hill. 



I have not made much improvement on the bog this season, 

 for I have been very much troubled with that bad complaint, — 

 "the shorts," — in the pocket. But I am very much pleased 

 with this investment ; and when I have anything more to dis- 

 pose of in this way, I shall invest it in bog meadow, in pref- 

 erence, at least, to the Norfolk county or any air (castle) line 

 railroad. 



West Dedham, Nov. 25, 1851. 



William Salishunfs Statement. 



After you examined my meadow, last year, I carted on it, 

 and spread forty loads of compost manure, and sowed more 

 grass seed. I have now about fifty loads more of compost, 

 made by covering the droppings of my cows, this season, with 

 coarse sand and gravel, which I intend to place there as soon 

 as the meadow is frozen sufficiently to bear up the load and 

 team. I have cut, the past season, about three and a half tons 

 of hay; and should have raised, it is probable, nearly double 

 that quantity, if my labors had not been thwarted. A road has 

 been raised below my meadow, having only a small sluice-way; 

 and several of the past seasons being very wet in the spring, 

 the water has set back and stood upon my ground. This, I 

 think, has been a great injury, and I hope that it may be rem- 

 edied another season. 



Medfield, Nov. 24, 1851. 



