ON RECLAIMED MEADOWS. 67 



WILLIAM OSBORN'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee of the Essex Agricultural Society, ) 

 on Reclaimed Meadows : J 



Gentlemen — Enclosed you will find a copy of 

 my statement of 1838, and I now hand you a state- 

 ment in addition to that, for 1839, and will only re- 

 mark in advance, that you may perhaps think the 

 yield of potatoes and the quantity of manure small 

 for the land cultivated ; but in addition to the ma- 

 nure, I burnt a considerable quantity of brake and 

 other roots found on the meadow and used the ashes. 

 The crop of potatoes would have been larger if I 

 had not used lime instead of manure on a large part 

 of the meadow, where in gathering I found a large 

 decrease in the yield ; another cause of decrease was 

 in planting the St. Helena potatoes instead of Che- 

 nangoes, which I have reason to think, from a few 

 that were mixed, if 1 had planted all of that kind, 

 I should have had at least one third more. 



Crop for 1838, per Account, $332 57 



Income for 1 839. 



300 bushels St. Helena potatoes, at 45c. 135 00 



57 " Rohans, at $2 00, 114 00 



2 tons Hay, $12, 24 00 



41 bushels of Carrots, 25c. 10 25 



74 " of Sugar Beets, 30c. 24 50 



Squashes and Pumpkins, 2 00 



40 bushels Mangel Wurtzels, 10 00 



10 " Ruta Baga, at 25c. 2 50 



Wood for family one year, and for > r no 



boiler for hogs, I 



$702 82 



