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EXTEKIMENTS. 



W. G. WYMAN'S STATEMENT. 



WHITE BEANS. 



The eighth acre on which my beans grew, is a yellow 

 loam, on a clayey sub-soil. For many years previous 

 to the present it has been in grass, but the soil was so 

 completely exhausted that the grass was hardly worth 

 mowing. It was plowed in the fall, and again in June, 

 about five inches deep ; harrowed ; furrowed ; manured 

 with about two-thirds load of compost, of nearly equal 

 proportions of muck and green stable manure applied to 

 the hill, at the rate of one shovelful to four hills ; planted 

 June 14th • hoed once by hand, and harvested Oct. 1st, 

 by being pulled and stacked in the field. 



Cost of plowing, &c., - - - - - $0,50 



Manure, . ----- 0,67 



Seed and planting, - - - - - ,25 



Cultivation, - - - - - - ,50 



Harvesting, - - . -' - - ,75 



Total, - - - - '■ - $2,67 



Produce, 128 lbs. beans, weighed November 8. 



EXPERIMENTS. 



There were three entries only of experiments. 



One on feeding neat stock, by John Brooks, Jr., of 



Princeton. 



One on keeping poultry, by Benjamin Safford, of 



Fitchburg. 



One with manures on wheat, by Wm. G. Wyman, of 



Fitchburg. 



All the above were entered, and statements furnished; 

 in conformity with the rules of the Society. 



