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to each 20 rods, and prepared the ground for oats and grass, 

 and sowed the same. 



At the time of harvesting I had on the salted ground, 2 bush- 

 els, 3 pecks ; ground unsalted, 2 bushels, 3 pecks. The oats on 

 the salted ground were 4 lbs. to the bushel heavier than on the 

 ground unsalted. 



On the next spring, 1845, I spread broad-cast one half bushel 

 of salt on salt ground. ' 



On the 4th of July mowed the grass on the above ground and 

 made it — 



Hay weighed on salt ground, ..... 156 lbs. 

 On ground unsalted, 133 " 



As it regards the use of salt on our lands, I consider it better 

 to spread it on the soil and harrow it in, rather than to mix it 

 with a compost. 



Statement of Paul Hathaway. 



The pasture land entered for premium abounded with rocks 

 and stones, covered almost with bushes, which had been cut for 

 forty years, nearly every year. I could keep down the tops, 

 not destroying a root. The premiums offered aroused my at- 

 tention, and I have commenced operations ; and my opinion is, 

 that I have expended enough in cutting bushes to have paid the 

 expense of subduing the same, root and branch, four times. The 

 expense is as follows : — 



Six oxen and a horse, with four hands, one day and a 



half, $12 00 



Four oxen and three hands, two days, ... 10 00 

 Crossing the same, one yoke of oxen, two hands, four 



days, 12 00 



$34 00 



This year, upon the same land : — 

 One yoke of oxen, two hands, four days, . . . $12 00 

 The same oxen, and three hands, two days, carting 



and dragging stone, 8 00 



