500 PLYMOUTH SOCIETY. 



loads of good compost manure, forty cubic feet to a load; 

 spread and ploughed it in. As it became very wet, I could 

 not sow it, and had to plough it again about the 20th of May. 



After drying two or three days, harrowed it over, and, on the 

 26t]i of May, sowed two and one-quarter bushels wheat on the 

 piece and harrowed it in ; sowed grass seed and bushed it over 

 twice. It was sowed two weeks later than usual, and although 

 high ground, it could not be sowed sooner. 



The soil was of a slaty mould. I found I did not sow seed 

 enough and it did not come up well, and it became very dry 

 and continued so for weeks, and, in fact, all the season. I 

 reaped it on the 23d of August, and did it out September 24th, 

 1852, by a horse-threshing machine. 



The result on the subsoiled part, S^- bushels ; on the part not 

 subsoiled, 5|- bushels ; making in the whole, 13| bushels. 



This showed much in favor of subsoiling, and it shows its 

 benefit in a very dry season, as the last was. I subsoil now, 

 yearly, all my cultivated land, and find it very useful. 



Spencer Leonard, JrJ's, Statement. 



SMALL GRAINS. 



The land on which I raised my barley was planted to corn 

 last year, and produced a heavy crop. This year, April, 30th, 

 it was ploughed about eight inches deep, and May 4th, 3| 

 bushels seed was applied, and well harrowed and rolled ; no 

 manure having been applied since taking off the corn. It was 

 cut about the middle of July and threshed soon after. Ob- 

 tained thirty -two bushels on one acre and six rods. Expenses : 

 3i bushels seed, at 75 cts. per bushel, $2 44. Ploughing, 



$1 60. Sowing seed and harrowing, $1 56. Rolling, 33 cts. 



Cutting and getting in, ^1 75. Threshing and cleaning, $5. 



Total, $12 68. 



Benjamin Hobarfs Statement. 



ROOT CROPS. 



Ploughed one-half acre of land, and subsoiled it the first 

 week in May, of a good loamy soil, which was in corn last year 

 from greensw^ard. Spread on the same thirteen loads, of forty 



