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STATEMENT OF ALFRED GREEN OF SALISBURY. 



I wish to be considered a claimant for the premium offered 

 by the society for " Improving wet meadow and Swamp Land," 

 and offer the following statement : 



In the Fall of 1876, I had one acre of Swamp land, which 

 was so covered with bunch hassocks as to be useless and un- 

 productive. I first built a dam across a narrow neck of the 

 land, putting in a tide gate so as to prevent fiowage from the 

 water of the Merrimac river, which entered a creek about 

 twenty rods distant. I then cut out all the hassocks with a 

 bog adz, using the hassocks to fill in about my dam ; ploughed 

 the land, put in one underdrain ; bedded the land into three 

 beds, leaving open drains between each two beds ; harrowed 

 and sowed the land with herds grass and red-top seed. Before 

 harrowing spread four barrels of ground bone over the soil. 



From this reclaimed land I have cut two tons of good hay 

 per acre for two years in succession, besides a ton and one- 

 half at the second crop, making seven tons of hay since 

 reclaiming the land. 



I present the following as a statement in full of the account : 



Four barrels of ground bone used, $20.10 



Ploughing land and rolling, 7.45 



Grass Seed, 1.80 



Labor of leveling, harrowing and sowing seed, 4.50 



Cost of gathering hay crop, 11.25 



$45.70 



187r Cr. 



Two tons of hay at $20 per ton (1st crop), $40.00 

 One and one-half tons (rowen) 2d crop, 27.00 



67.00 

 To labor, bone dust, &c., 45.70 



Profit of land first year, $21.30 



