102 PLYMOUTH SOCIETY. 



For subduing bushes in pasture land, the first premium of $10 

 is awarded to Paul Hathaway, Esq., of Middleborough, who 

 has subdued a thick growth of bushes, on nearly three acres of 

 very rocky pasture land. Mr. Stafford Sturtevant, of Halifax, 

 entered a claim for subduing bushes, and commenced the work, 

 but afterwards conveyed the land to his son in law, Cyrus 

 Thompson, in whose name the statement came. The commit- 

 tee think claims of this kind not transferable, but, on a repre- 

 sentation that the work had been finished by Mr. T., they 

 allow him a gratuity of $4. 



The Committee on Produce award the first premium of $15 

 for the greatest crop of wheat, to Benjamin Hobart, of Abing- 

 ton. Mr. H. raised a fraction over twenty-two bushels on an 

 acre. His statement shows great care in the preparation of 

 his land, and continued success indicates skill in the culture of 

 this crop. But we cannot think, as Mr. Hobart's statement 

 seems to imply, that it is a very profitable crop in this section 

 of country, even in the most skilful hands. Mr. H's land was 

 pretty highly manured in 1844 ; last spring he put on twenty 

 loads of good compost manure. After the wheat was up, he 

 sowed on it one bushel and a half of plaster, mixed with twenty 

 pounds of guano. Deduct the whole expense from the value of 

 the crop, and very little, if any thing, will remain for the use of 

 the land. We think it prudent for farmers in this county, to 

 sow wheat only on particularly favorable fields. Our lands 

 generally have lost much of the qualities which are necessary 

 to carry this grain to perfection, and which cannot be restored 

 otherwise than by continued high cultivation. 



Claims were entered by Messrs. H. Collamore, of Pembroke, 

 and B. Hobart, of Abington, to the premiums offered for the 

 best experiments to prove the influence of subsoil ploughing on 

 the corn crop. These gentlemen are in the habit of giving us 

 fuller and more satisfactory statements than we usually receive. 

 The results in both the experiments are satisfactory as to the 

 salutary influence of subsoil ploughing; but widely different, 

 partly through circumstances over which one of the operators 

 could have no control, and partly through the neglect of the 

 other. The corn in Mr. C's field was in the first instance made 



