194 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Income : — 

 Two bushels of seed, $6 00 



Profit, $4 00 



Sunderland, 1854. 



BEANS 



BRISTOL. 



Statement of Samuel Carpenter. 



I hereby present a claim for a premium for the best crop of 

 white beans, raised on forty-one rods of ground the last sea- 

 son. The land the year preceding the spring of 1853 was a 

 pasture. It was plain land, of a light and sandy soil, and had 

 not been ploughed for about fifteen years previous. I first 

 ploughed it in September, 1852, turned the sward at that time, 

 and let it so remain till the next spring, (1853;) then har T 

 rowed it all over thoroughly with a horse harrow. I then 

 spread on two cords of manure, mostly from the barn yard, 

 with scrapings around the door yard, not very rich, and then 

 ploughed the ground once with a light horse plough, covering 

 the manure. I then furrowed it one way less than three feet 

 wide, and the last of May planted the beans in hills about a 

 foot apart in the furrows, using four quarts of seed. 



After the plants had been up a few weeks I cultivated be- 

 tween the rows with the common cultivator, and hoed them 

 once thoroughly, taking care to kill all the weeds. This was 

 all I did to them till they were harvested, haying been allowed 

 to stand till they were ripe. 



The expense of cultivation (not including the value of the 

 manure) was, as near as can be ascertained, (the ground 

 having been ploughed in connection with adjoining land,) 

 $5.25. 



The quantity raised was six bushels two and a half quarts 

 of good beans, a sample of which is herewith exhibited. 



