110 PLYMOUTH SOCIETY. 



Abraham Perkins and team, two days, harrowing and 



bushing, $5 00 



Hands with hoes, and iron bars, twelve days,. . 12 00 



$37 00 

 I have surveyed and measured the same, and it contains 

 2 acres, 3 qrs., 8 rods. 



October 2\sL 1845. 



Statement of Benjamin Hobart. 



I have, since last March, carried out and used on my farm 

 160 ox wagon loads which would measure 175 loads, of 40 

 cubic feet to each. This was rich, valuable compost. It was 

 composed of good materials, carried in last season, and mixed 

 up early in the spring with all the green barn manure, and 

 from a hog stye, including the manure of a stable of seven 

 horses. The green manure was all kept under cover until 

 spring, and then all dug up and mixed in two large heaps with 

 the stuff carried in, as before stated. Ashes, some lime, and 

 several casks of plaster, and some salt, were thrown into the 

 heap promiscuously. 



Besides this, I have carried out and spread on my farm, 

 principally on my grass lands, more than 500 loads of scrapings, 

 peaty matter, from the sides of roads, and from where roads 

 have been lately made, and have carried, and now have in my 

 yards and styes, about 200 loads of very good materials, to mix 

 up and compost as above, manure for next spring's use, into 

 which I have this season thrown weeds, ashes, lime, and 

 brine from beef and mackerel barrels, and other scrapings ; 

 yarded the cows, and kept hogs on the same, and occasionally 

 ploughed the whole over to mix these ingredients. 



South Abington, Oct. Uth, 1845. 



Mr. George W. Wood, of Middleborough, stated that his 

 method of composting manure was, to collect into his hog and 

 barn yards, much soil from ditches, from the borders of roads 



