112 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



1866. One ditch, near the centre of lot, running from 

 the upland south to main ditch, with boards 

 and poles in the bottom, and filled witl 

 small stones, ..... 



Harrowing, pulling roots and carting them 



Grass seed, redtop and Timothy, . 



Tiiree loads manure, .... 



Mailing and carting about four tons hay to 

 Darn, ....... 



1128 00 

 Cr. 



1865. By five loads wood, |10 00 



1866. By fifteen loads of brush, weeds, muck, &c., 



drawn to the upland, 20 cents per load, . 3 00 

 Picking small stones from the upland to fill 



ditches, twenty-five loads, 20 cents per load. 

 About one ton of hay or grass standing, . 



1867. About four tons hay put in barn, . 



1868. About four and one-half tons of hay standing 



on the lot, at f 8 per ton, .... 



1110 00 



Statement of T. H. Fenn. 

 In the fall of 1865, immediately after the examination of 

 your Committee, I commenced taking out the bushes, alders, 

 willows, hard-hack, stumps and bogs, most of which were re- 

 moved by hand labor, as it was impossible to use a team on 

 parts of it. A large quantity of wood, the roots of stumps and 

 bogs, buried in muck, were discovered on removing brushes and 

 bogs, which had not been seen by me before. Ditches were 

 made to nearly surround the piece, and which, by taking off the 

 water, greatly aided me in drying and reducing to ashes the 

 debris on the same. The account will stand nearly as follows : 



Dr. 



To one half expense of ditches, $7 50 



Bogging and removing brush, stumps and logs on 



the acre, twenty days, at SI. 50 per day, . . 30 00 

 Burning debris, six days, 9 00 



