ON GRAIN AND MIXED CROPS. 77 



The Committee also recommend that the statement of 

 Joshua Tappan be published with the reports of the So- 

 ciety, for further consideration. 



ASA T. NEWHALL, 

 MOSES FRENCH, 

 ANDREW DODGE. 

 Ipswich, Nov. 29, 1844. 



WILLIAM BARTLETT'S STATEMENT. 



To Asa T. Newhall^ Esq., Lynnjield: 



Sir, — Enclosed is a certificate ofMr Tristram Little, of 

 Newbury, of the measurement of a piece of ground plant- 

 ed by me, to corn, the past season. Likewise the cer- 

 tificate of the young man who did my work. The land 

 is a fine loam, in some places where it has been filled 

 up two feet depth of soil, in another not more than ten 

 inches, as some yellow dirt was brought up when it was 

 ploughed. It has been under the plough and cropped 

 with corn and potatoes, for the last seven years, and not 

 very highly manured. The manure that was put on the 

 past season was various in its kind, and consisted of five 

 and one one half cart loads of leeched sumac, obtained 

 from the wool fullers ; six loads of horse stable manure, 

 six loads cattle and hog manure, three loads dry rye 

 straw cut up, five loads of butts of corn, old potato vines, 

 leaves, and, partly in a decomposed state, two loads cobs 

 and two loads dry husks, with two loads of pickled fish, 

 which was put into a pit in August 1843, and taken out 

 in May 1844. The above manure was spread on one 

 acre and one hundred and fifty rods, of which what was 

 planted to corn was a part. The manure was spread 

 on, and put under the soil by being raked into the fur- 

 row after the plough, and it was very nearly all covered. 



The ground was ploughed fourteen or fifteen inches 

 deep, by one of D. Prouty's rod A Ploughs, and what 

 was stirred by the plou^^h, was nearly all turned over, 

 as 1 have had an addition put to the mould board nearly 

 as high as the beam. After the rod A plough passed, 

 which was drawn by four yoke of oxen, it was followed 



