53 



1859. To ploughing and harrowing, . . . 11.00 



Applying manure and planting, . . . 18.95 



Seed, 1.35 



13 cords manure, at ^5 per cord, . . 65.00 



Cultivating, hoeing and sowing grass-seed, . 10.75 



Grass-seed, ...... 6.75 



Harvesting, ...... 10.87 



Cr. By about 80 bushels corn, . . $80.00 

 By husks and stalks, . . 19.00 



By 21 bushels beans, at $2 per bush., 3.00 



The total amount of expense, . . . $273.02 



" " the crops, . . . 200.65 



Leaves a balance against the pasture of . $72.37 



The corn crop this season was shortened by the frost at least 

 one-fourth. Benj. N. Sawin. 



Dover, Kov. 8, 1859. 



CALVIN RICHARDS'S STATEMENT. 



The first piece to which I called your attention, contains about 

 five and one-half acres of worn-out pasture land, which came into 

 my possession in the spring of 1858, a part of which was covered 

 with moss and a part with bushes. In August I caused the 

 bushes to be cut and removed from the land, and ploughed about 

 two acres of the lot, doing nothing more, with the exception of re- 

 moving loose stones, until the spring of 1859, when I ploughed 

 one acre more, cross-ploughing the land ; ploughed in 1858, and 

 planted that and half of the other acre to corn and potatoes, mostly 

 corn, after manuring with compost manure in the hill ; the other 

 half Vy as sown Avith buckwheat. 



In June of 1859, I ploughed the remaining two acres, a part 

 of which has been harrowed, and in September cross-ploughed 

 the whole and sowed half acre with rye, intending to plant the 

 balance, together with the first three acres, the coming season, to 

 corn. The loose stones on the surface have been, or are to be, 

 removed. The crop of corn is a very fair one for this season, al- 

 though injured by the frost ; the crop of buckwheat is not of much 

 account, the land being too full of bushes for it to succeed. 



The second piece contains about one and a ([uarter acres, which 

 w-as ploughed in June of 1858, and harrowed once between that 

 time and July of the present year, at which time the land was 

 well manured with compost manure, and cross-ploughed ; the loose 

 stones were then removed, and the whole seeded down to grass, 

 with a sprinkling of turnip seed ; the grass and the turnips arc 

 now looking finely. Calvin Riciiauds. 



Dover, Sept. IJ, Ibo'J. 



