ESSEX SOCIETY. 19 



The produce, this year, of 162 rods, is as follows : 

 73 rods planted with chenangoes in April, 110 bushels, $80 00 

 53 rods planted with blues in June, 125 bushels, . 50 00 



36 rods oats, on which no application of manure had 

 had been made, except a few ashes last year, 



1500 wt 9 00 



The 73 rods of land planted with chenango potatoes, 

 was sowed with oats on the 5th and 7th of Aug- 

 ust, and there is now, September 4, by estima- 

 tion. 3000 wt. to the acre. . . . . 15 00 



$154 00 

 Deduct ten dollars for rotten potatoes, . 10 00 



$144 00 

 The potatoes were planted by perforating the sod after it was 

 turned, and the potatoes dropped in and then covered with a 

 slight poke with the stick one foot asunder each way, making- 

 four rows on a ridge. 



Andover, October, 1845. 



James Marsh's Statement. 



The piece of reclaimed meadow, to which I ask the attention 

 of the committee, contains about four acres. A few years since 

 it was considered worthless, not having been mowed for many 

 years. A part was covered with bushes and stunted maples. 

 In the winter of 1839. I cleared the wood and bushes from the 

 part now improved. The sprouts have been kept down yearly. 



In August 1843, I hired an acre dug over and laid level, (the 

 stumps and hassocks thrown back) for twenty dollars. Such 

 of the small roots and hassocks as became dry, I burned ; the 

 others were carted off as soon as the meadow became frozen. 

 I then covered it with a loamy gravel, one inch thick ; five days 

 labor of two men and a boy, and two yoke of oxen. The work 

 was done in the winter, when there was two feet of snow on 

 the ground, too deep for other labor. I then applied a light 

 dressing of manure, and sowed the grass seed April 15th. The 



