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berry bushes, tfcc. Some of the bushes we cut and burned on 

 the ground and some we ploughed in. The soil is a clay loam. 

 "We ploughed about eight acres of it in the summer of 1857, 

 in Avet weather when we could not do any thing else to advan- 

 tage. Thus ploughing in all that was green to decompose pre- 

 vious to ploughing in the following spring when it was cross- 

 ploughed, and about six acres of it manured with as much 

 manure as could be ploughed in. Tfe remainder was ploughed 

 and harrowed, and not planted, as I do not think that it pays 

 to plant and hoe without manure. All that was manured was 

 planted to corn, but on account of the wet and cold weather it 

 was not planted until the 5th and 6th of June, hence it was 

 not very sound corn. In 1859 that which had been planted to 

 corn was sowed to barley and grass seed, and it was a good 

 crop. This year we have cut two large crops of clover and 

 Timothy. 



In the summer of 1858 the remainder was ploughed, and 

 last year (1859) it was manured, ploughed, and planted to 

 corn and ruta-baga. The corn did not get ripe and not a very 

 good crop. The ruta-bagas were a fair crop. This year five 

 acres of it were sown with six bushels of wheat and grass seed, 

 and four acres to barley and grass seed. The wheat produced 

 ninety bushels, the barley one hundred bushels. 



I have put on the whole piece one thousand loads of stable 

 and barnyard manure, half a cord to the load which I charge 

 to the land, ^2,000. The crops which I have received I calcu- 

 late will pay the expense of cultivating and applying the 

 manure, so that the land is now indebted to me $2,000. 



This I expect to receive back again principal and interest in 

 five years in hay and fall feed, so that I shall gain by the opera- 

 tion at tlie end of eight years the value of the land, Avhich will 

 be at least one hundred dollars per acre. 



NKWiiURYPORT, November 1, 18G0. 



NORFOLK. 



• Statement of A. L. Smith. 



The piece of pasture land which I offer for premium, contains 

 four acres ; the soil is a gravelly loam. It had been used for a 



