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Ploughing twice and harrowing, $2 50; planting, $2; weed- 

 ing, thinning, and hoeing four times, $12; harvesting, .$4; 

 total, (manure excepted) $520 50. On the 18th of October, the 

 supervisor weighed one rod, 302 pounds, which, at 56 pounds 

 to the bushel, is 218|§- bushels, or S74|f bushels to the acre. 

 This is a good crop, but not a great one. I intend to try for 

 300 bushels on a quarter of an acre, next year. 



DuxBURY, Oct. 20, 1851. 



George Drexo's Statement. 



The land on which I planted my French turnips, was 

 planted to corn in 1850. Ploughed in May, and cross ploughed 

 and harrowed twice in Ji,me, $1 50. I put on the quarter acre 

 50 bushels leached ashes, $5 50, June 21st and 23d, planted 

 two feet one way and twenty inches the other, $2 50. July 

 and August, hoed twice, $3; harvesting, $2 50; making $16. 

 I consider the land to be better for the ashes, one half the ex- 

 pense, $3 25. October 23d, the supervisor harvested and 

 weighed one rod, 279:i pounds, making 779if bushels per acre. 



Halifax, Oct. 31, 1851. 



Jonathan Copeland's Statement. 



The quarter acre of land I entered, for premium on carrots, 

 I ploughed the first of August, 1850 ; the land in good condi- 

 tion, and a strong sward loam, with some gravel. The middle 

 of April, put on seven large cart-loads of manure from barn 

 cellar, and ploughed it in deep. The 20th May, ploughed 

 again, and commenced sowing on a smooth surface, the rows 

 eighteen inches apart ; seed of the orange variety, sown by 

 hand. The weeding and thinning out was done by my man, 

 before breakfast, in cloudy weather. I think it requires about 

 the same labor to cultivate a quarter of an acre of carrots that 

 it does to cultivate an acre of corn. 



W. Bridgewater, Oct. 20, 1851. 



Seth Spragne's Statement. 

 I have carted on to my farm in Duxbury, the past year, 226 

 tons of rock or sea-weed. A few loads were weighed, the 



