ON FARMS. 29 



JOSEPH KITTHEDGe's STATEMENT, 



To the Committee on Farms: 



Gentlemen — I send you a statement of my farm, agreeably t(7 

 the rules of the Society. I improve fifty-four acres as English 

 mowing, tillage and orcharding. The soil is mostly of a black 

 mould, resting on a hard pan — ten acres of meadow, forty of 

 pasturing, thirty-six of pine land, that I sow with rye every third 

 or fourth year, and one hundred and seventy acres of unimprov- 

 ed and wood land. 1 cultivated the present season four acres 

 with corn in the following manner. In the autumn of ] 832, I 

 ploughed the land to the depth of seven inches; as early in the 

 spring as the land would admit, I spread eighty common carta 

 full of winter manure on the furrows, harrowed until the ma- 

 nure was completely mixed with the top of the soil ; furrowed 

 it so that the hills were three feet apart ; then with hay and fall 

 manure that was laid upon the land last autumn, in large heaps, 

 manured in the hill with about the same number of loads — hoed 

 twice in June : in July the corn was so thick that I could not 

 ■hoe a third time, and had every weed pulled, taking care through 

 the VT hole process, that the sod was not disturbed. The product 

 of the above four acres was four hundred and seventy-seven 

 bushel baskets full of sound ears or 238 bushels of corn. I have 

 followed this method for three years last past, and feel confident 

 that I have increased my crop one-third. 



I sowed with oats and barley five acres and one hundred and 

 two rods that was planted the year preceding, with corn and 

 potatoes. I did nothing to the land but ploughed it twice as 

 well as it could be to the depth of seveu inches ; sowed on the 

 acre fifteen bushels of oats and four of barley ; harrowed with 

 an iron tooth harrovv and brushed smooth. Had measured of 

 oats 207 1-2 bushels and of barley 57 1-2 bushels. 



1 cultivated one hundred and twenty-nine rods of land with 

 winter wheat, and one hundred and thirty rods with winter rye, 

 side by side. I ploughed the land the first week in September, 

 1832; the third week, spread twenty-eight carts full of good 

 fall manure on the top of the furrows — harrowed until the ma- 



