ON MULBERRY TREES, hc. 59 



tliree feet apart and on the other half one and a half feet. Be- 

 tween the rows, which were three feet apart, a row of carro ts 

 were sown which produced a small crop. 



The expense of management the first season is estimated as 

 follows : — 



Ploughing the grass ground, 



Manure 6 feet, and harrowing, 



9 ounces white mulberry seed, 



Labour of sowing, 



Hoeing and weeding four times, 



$9 25 

 In the spring of 1833 eight thousand trees were transplanted 

 to about three fourths of an acre of the ground adjoining the 

 seedling nursery, which had been been broken up at the same 

 time, and cultivated with Indian corn in 1832. About six cords of 

 manure was spread on this ground and ploughed in. The trees 

 were set in rows 6 feet apart, about 8 inches from each other in 

 the rows. Between each of the rows corn was planted. 

 Expense estimated as follows : — 



Ploughing, ^1 00 



Transplanting the 8,000 trees, 2 00 



Extra hoeing on account of the trees, 2 00 



Hoeing and weeding the 22,000 trees re- 

 maining in the original nursery, 2 00 



^7 00 

 Respectfully yours, 



Abel Nichols. 

 N. B. Several thousand worms were fed on the leaves of 

 the nursery and a row of trees now of three years growth set for 

 a hedge on one side of the nursery; the cocoons formed are 

 heavy and apparently good. No particular estimate of the va- 

 lue of the labor expended on them has been made, the object of 

 rearing them being neither present profif nor the expectation of ob- 

 taining a premium for them, but merely to become acquainted with 

 the management of silk worms against the time when my trees 



