98 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



the Ijarnyard, but from the sea. They have made themselves 

 an excellent scow ; raked the harbor for muscles ; scraped the 

 rocks for rockweed, and gathered kelp from the shore. I 

 requested Mr. "Wm. S. Iladaway to make a statement of their 

 summer's work, which he kindly consented to do, and I think 

 I cannot do better than give it almost entire. 



" Our farm," says he, " consists of 113| acres, 73 of which 

 are woodland and commons, 27 pasture, 8 mowing land, 5]- 

 tilling. 



" Stock kept — 1 horse, 4 cows, 1 heifer, 1 hog and 12 hens. 



" Crops grown — corn, two and one-half acres ; turnips, one 

 acre ; potatoes, one-half acre ; barley, one-half acre ; carrots, 

 one-half acre ; squashes, one-quarter acre ; cabbage, and other 

 vegetables, one-quarter acre. 



" Manures used — stable, menhaden, muscles, rock-weed and 

 salt. 



"About forty tons of muscles were ploughed under, for corn, 

 in old pasture which was very light and barren, excepting 

 about one acre which was formerly used by the Indians, to 

 judge from the quantity of shells. On this part the corn grew 

 exceedingly well, and was judged to have sixty bushels shelled 

 corn. The other part being poor land it grew slowly until tlie 

 roots found the muscles, when it changed color and grew 

 remarkably well, but, owing to early frosts, did not do well. 

 The whole piece gave one hundred bushels sound corn, and 

 twenty bushels soft. For the turnips, twelve tons of rock-weed 

 ■were ploughed under ; the crop amounted to two hundred and 

 twenty-five bushels. I consider fifty tons of rock-weed neces- 

 sary to secure a good crop from an acre. I intended to use 

 that amount, but the severe storms in June damaged our scow, 

 and made us late in using our small quantity. 



" The barley and potatoes were manured with twenty loads 

 of barnyard manure and five bushels of oily salt. The potatoes 

 measured one hundred and thirty bushels. They were planted 

 in drills, and those that were planted tlie deepest were freest 

 from rot. The l)arlcy yielded about ten bushels, but was quite 

 salt — so much so, tliat when made into bread, it was quite 

 unpalataljlc. Perhai)s others have noticed the same results, 

 but it is a singular fact to me. 



