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— ploughing and harrowing, |3 ; seed oats, $1 42; cradling 

 and housing, $2 42; threshing and cleaning, &c., $4 50 — To- 

 tal, $11 34. 



East Bridgewater, Oct. 18, 1851. 



Thomas Ameses Statement. 



The land on which I have this year raised barley, was last 

 year planted with potatoes. On the 15th of April last I plough- 

 ed the ground, and on the 26th of the same month, I spread on 

 four cords of stable manure and ploughed it in. On the 30th, 

 I sowed three and one half bushels of barley and harrowed it 

 in twice. I then sowed grass seed and bushed it over. On 

 the 20th of August, 1 had forly-four bushels of barley, threshed 

 and cleaned from the ground, which measured one acre and 

 two rods. 



West Bridgewater, Oct. 20, 1851. 



[The manure should have been applied to the previous crop. 

 We think it a well-established fact, that barn manure should 

 not be applied immediately to the small grains. Our own ex- 

 perience teaches us that two and one half bushels of seed is 

 enough per acre — three and one half bushels quite too much. 

 — Sup.] 



*S'e//i Spragiie^s Statcm^ent. 



The quarter of an acre entered by me, for premium on beets, 

 is a dark or moist quality of soil, — it was in potatoes last year. 

 In consequence of getting a quantity of kelp and ploughing 

 the adjoining land, it was ploughed in November, turning 

 under about four tons of kelp. May 1, hauled on six cart- 

 loads of stable manure, and ploughed it under, six inches deep; 

 harrowed, and carried on six loads of compost — harrowed three 

 times. May 10th, ploughed in rows, two feet apart, in drills, 

 (thinning out twelve inches,) one half with mangel wurtzel, 

 and the other, the white beet of the wurtzels ; not more than 

 one-third come up. By replanting and transplanting, with four 

 or five days' labor, I got them to stand pretty well in the rows. 

 They were hoed four times, and hand-cultivated several times. 



