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community, through the Society, the process and results of all 

 successful examples of cultivation, and in every branch of ag- 

 ricultural economy. Wherever there is a valuable cow, an un- 

 common producer, let the mode of raising, feeding and manag- 

 ing be communicated to this Society, for the public eye. And, 

 so, too, wherever there are cattle possessing more than ordinary 

 qualities, whether for labor or for the stall, let the modes of 

 bringing up and carrying forward be made known. 



Statement of D. M. Bryant. 



In the fall of 1844, I purchased seven and a half acres of 

 land, at nine dollars per acre, the land situated upon the county 

 road leading from Chicopee Falls to Granby, about two miles 

 from the river. It is situated on the east side of Ridge Hill, and 

 bounded west by a heavy growth of pine timber. The land 

 had been sown to rye three times, and the last crop might have 

 been ten or twelve bushels per acre. My object in purchasing 

 it, was to demonstrate that the pine plains, properly manured 

 and cultivated, would yield a fair profit ; but the result of this 

 experiment has far exceeded my anticipations. 



The whole piece was ploughed in September, and the land 

 left in the furrow during the winter ; one acre measured off for 

 potatoes, ploughed deep, and twelve loads of compost, made as 

 described in note A, spread upon the furrow, harrowed and 

 brushed in ; the rows marked with a chain three and a half feet 

 apart, potatoes dropped, single, two feet apart, and plastered, 

 covered with the plough, hoed once, and one bushel of plaster 

 sowed broad-cast after. This crop would have been benefited 

 by another hoeing. 



Three and a half acres were planted with corn ; compost 

 above mentioned was spread in same manner as upon the pota- 

 toes, to the extent of two acres, including the squashes below 

 mentioned. The seed soaked in a solution of sal ammoniac and 

 saltpetre. The corn came up very even, and was cut down 

 twice by frost. The moles destroyed many hills, but the crows, 

 after tasting it, found it unpalatable, Ninety pounds of guano, 

 mixed with four bushels of decomposed clay slate, were drop- 



