184 BARNSTABLE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Ploughing, 



Fifty-six loads of manure, 



Hoeing and cultivating, 



Harvesting, 



$37 33 

 Barnstable, Oct. 25, 1848. 



Russell Hinckley's Statement. 



I offer for premium two acres of Indian corn. The land is a 

 sandy loam, and produced, the year previous, from one to two 

 tons of English hay to the acre. On the two acres, 125 ox- loads 

 of manure, (of thirty bushels each,) were carried and turned 

 under to the depth of four inches, and the ground was harrowed 

 three times. The corn was planted about the 9th of May, three 

 feet and a half one way, and two feet the other ; two corns were 

 left in the hill. It was worked out crosswise, only with the 

 harrow, and hoed three times. From one acre I harvested sixty- 

 five and a half bushels of corn, and from the other sixty-four. 



Marston's Mills, Oct. 25, 1848. 



Enoch Shove's Statement. 



Having, for some years, been convinced, that too much seed is 

 injurious to the growth of the potato, I this year resolved to 

 test its certainty by experiments. For this purpose, I selected 

 two pink-eye potatoes, that might probably weigh about four 

 ounces each, and, having cut them so as to retain one eye on 

 each piece, I planted them in my garden, (a light sandy soil,) 

 about the middle of May, putting two pieces and a spoon-full of 

 plaster in each hill. Notwithstanding the extreme drought of 

 the past season, which, for some time, seemed to suspend vege- 



