50 ON SILK. 



with potatoes, the manure was spread and ploughed in — on the 

 corn part, it was put in the hole. There was a fair crop of 

 each, the exact amount of which I do not recollect ; but there 

 was in the following wheat crop a difference in favor of the part 

 planted with corn. In the spring it was ploughed and sowed with 

 three bushels of white wheat, and reaped and threshed in Au- 

 gust, and the amount was thirty three bushels. 

 Respectfully, yours, 



JOHN NOYES. 

 Newbury, Dec. 9, 1835. 



This may Certify, That I have surveyed the above land 

 sowed with wheat, and there was one acre and one quarter and 

 four rods. TRISTRAM LITTLE, Surveyor. 



This will Certify, That I assisted in threshing and 

 measuring the within crop of wheat, and the above statement is 

 correct. CHARLES NOYES. 



Essex 55. Dec. 12, 1835. Then the aforenamed John 

 Noyes, and Charles Noyes, personally appeared, and made 

 oath to the truth of the foregoing statements, by them sub- 

 scribed, before me, 



SILAS MOODY, Justice Peace. 



ASA A. ABBOT'S STATEMENT. 



My specimen of reeled silk weighs one pound and two 

 onnces, and is the produce of about 4500 worms, fed entirely 

 on white mulberry leaves. 



My worms were hatched by placing the eggs in a warm room 

 about the 2Sth of May. In eleven days the worms were hatch- 

 ed, and, for the convenience of feeding, were kept in the same 

 room until the third moulting, when they were removed to a 

 granary and placed on shelves fitted for their reception. In five 



