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Statement of Cyrus Kilhiim. 



WHITE BEANS. 



The crop of 1867 was rye. No manure used. The crop of 1868 

 was white beans — eight cart loads of manure to the acre. The soil is 

 a sandy loam. Plowed once, six inches deep. No other preparation 

 made for the seed. Cost of plowing, $4 per acre. No manure used 

 for the present year, except two barrels of bone meal and three bar- 

 rels of ashes to the acre, mixed and put in the hill. The value of 

 the manure on the ground was $12.00. Planted pea beans about the 

 10th of June, in rows three feet apart; hills two feet apart. The 

 cost of the seed and planting was $5.00 per acre. Hand hoed twice. 

 Cost of cultivation, $10,00 per acre. Pulled and stacked, Sept. 1st. 

 Cost of harvesting, $5.00 per acre. Straw of not much value. I 

 should plant my beans in hills two feet apart each way, making 68 hills 

 to the square rod; 10,880 hills to the acre. Not more than 4 beans 

 should be planted in a hill. A small quantity of well rotted manure 

 should be put in each hill, or enough spread and plowed in, so that 

 each hill might have the benefit of some of the manure. Beans re- 

 quire but a small quantity of manure. 



Statement of Ephraim Graham. ■ 



WHITE BEANS. 



The crop of 1867 was corn. Twelve loads of manure to the acre 

 were used. The crop of 1868 was white beans. Used twelve loads 

 of compost to the acre. Soil, sandy. Plowed once, quite shallow; 

 harrowed once. Cost of plowing, &c., $2.75. No manure used. 

 Planted June 1st, about one peck of seed, by hand. Cost of seed 

 and planting, $2.75. Hoed twice. Cost of cultivation, $3.00. Pulled 

 and spread, Sept. 10th. Cost of harvesting, $2.75. Value of straw, 

 50 cents. 



The field where I raised my beans, was a young orchard. The sur- 

 face soil gravelly; the subsoil somewhat clayey. The field was plowed 

 shallow, and no manure used. The seed was planted in drills. They 

 were hoed and thinned twice. 



Statement of Joseph Goodrich. 



CORN. 



The crop of 1807 was grass. Of 1868, corn. Twenty-five loads 

 of stable manure to the acre. Soil, clay. Plowed in November, from 

 8 to 10 inches de^p. Plowed the following spring. Furrowed one 

 way, -and manured in the hills. Hills three feet apart. Cost of plow- 

 ing, $10.00. Used about twenty-five loads of manure ; two-thirds 



