114 PLYMOUTH SOCIETY. 



I put 20 lbs. of guano, mixed with about two bushels of 

 plaster, in the hills before covering, about a great spoonful in 

 each. The result is before your supervisor, who has inspected 

 the same and weighed one square rod on each half acre. The 

 experiment appears to be much in favor of subsoiling, but as it 

 will be reported upon by abler hands, I shall not particularize. 

 I shall only add I have subsoiled on other parts of my farm to 

 great advantage. 



South Abington, Oct 14th, 1845. 



Statement of Nathan Whitman. 



The undersigned would respectfully give a statement of the 

 manner which he pursued in raising an acre of corn. May 15th, 

 16th and 17th ploughed, and hauled on and spread the manure, 

 35 loads on three quarters of an acre, and spread 50 bushels of 

 ashes on the other one quarter of an acre ; then ploughed it 

 lightly again, deep enough to cover the manure, then went over 

 with a brush to level it ; then furrowed it one way 3 feet 6 

 inches apart, and planted the corn, dropping it 18 or 20 inches 

 apart, three kernels in a hill. Finished planting 19th. The last 

 of June went through the same with cultivator twice in one 

 row, and hoed the same myself half a day, and a hand one 

 day. This is all that has been done to it until your supervisor 

 selected one rod and harvested. 



N. B. — The soil of this acre is a yellow loam mixed with 

 gravel about seven eighths of it, the other quite gravelly. 



Statement of Daniel Alden. 



The land was ploughed in the fall of the year 1843; in the 

 spring of 1844 spread on 30 loads of good manure and ploughed 

 it in ; then planted it to corn, putting in 10 loads of manure in 

 the hill ; in the fall after harvest, spread on 25 loads of compost 

 manure ; the muck I hauled one mile, then added 25 bushels 

 of leached ashes and four bushels of salt to the mud, which was 

 of a clayey substance. The land on which it was spread was 

 droughty, and I think this manure for such land to be very 



