116 PLYMOUTH SOCIETY. 



Killing weeds, $0 75 



Topping stalks, 2 00 



Harvesting, estimated 8 00 



$49 92 

 Value of Crop. 



118^ bushels, $76 65 



Topped stalks, 10 00 



Butts, 8 00 



$94 65 

 Expense, 49 92 



Profit, $44 73 



East Bridgewaier, Oct. 14th, 1845. 



Statement of Josiah Whitman. 



The land, except an eighth of an acre of the same, was mowed 

 in July, 1844 ; cut about one ton of hay to the acre. In Novem- 

 ber, 1844, I ploughed it eight inches deep. April 28th, 1845, 

 drew on six cords of compost manure, made from the droppings 

 of the cattle while housed the past winter, and soil (not so well 

 made as it ought to have been), spread the same and ploughed 

 it in with a horse, broke but very few of the sods. May 17th 

 drew on two cords of the same kind of compost manure, and 

 dropped the same in the drills, which were three feet six inches 

 apart, and planted it nine inches the other way. It took half a 

 bushel of seed corn ; the seed was the smutty white, or what 

 now goes by the name of the Whitman corn, saved from my 

 last year's growth, by picking out my best ears when I husked 

 my corn, and hanging up the same by the husks. June 11th, 

 cultivated it out twice in a row and hoed the same, leaving two 

 stalks in a hill. 24th, do. ; and raised the ground a trifle around 

 the corn. September, cut a few of the stalks, left the rest on 

 until harvested. 



East Bridgewaier, Oct. 10, 1845. 



