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STATEMENT OF CHARLES W. WOODS. 



The crop of beans which I enter for premium was raised 

 on 140 rods or § of an acre of ground. The land is light 

 loam and planted in 1884 to potatoes, using a, good dress- 

 ing of stable manure, but failing to get a crop owing to 

 drouth ; no manure was used this year, thinking the 

 manure must be left in the ground. The ground was 

 plowed and planted with red kidney beans, using 2| bushels 

 seed ; June 19, the ground was furrowed the same as if for 

 potatoes ; the seed was strewn along in the rows by hand 

 and covered by dragging a dung puller lengthwise the 

 furrows as fast as a man could walk, taking but half a day 

 for man and horse to do the whole planting. They were 

 cultivated with the Hussey cultivator and hoed the first 

 time July 13, the hoeing being done nearly as fast as a 

 man could walk. July 28 the same cultivator was run 

 through them, using the wings, which did all the hoeing. 

 No otiier labor was done on them until harvested, except 

 to walk through them and pull out a few large weeds 

 in the rows. They were harvested Nov. 3d, yielding 25 

 bush, or at the rate of 28 bush to the acre. 

 Cost of crop as follows : / 



Plowing and planting, 13 50 



2| bush, seed, 5 00 



Cultivating twice, 8 00 



Hoeing and pulling weeds, 4 00 



Harvesting, thrashing and winnowing, 6 00 



$21 50 



Newbury, Nov. 5, 1885. 

 This certifies that I have measured a piece of land for 

 C. W, Woods containing 140 rods on which was grown 25 

 bush, of red kidney beans. 



Jere. Allen. 



