44 AGRICULTURAL REPORT. [March, 



DUXBURY.— Claimants, la Acres sown, ID 7-12. Product, 220 l&. 



Average per acre, 1 1 1 bs. 



Largest cro|ts, ID bs. ; KJJ lis. ; IG bs. ; J5i bs. per acre. 

 Remarks. Largest crop with '<:0 loads of compost. Second crop of 16 

 bs. with 15 loads of barn manure. With 50 loads of compost, the yield llf 

 bushels. With 45 loads of compost and eight casks of lime, the crop Iff 

 bushels. 



EAST BRIDGEWATER —Claimants, 4. Ac. sown, 7 29-40. Prod. 104 bs. 

 Average per acre, ]:i 1-7 bs. 

 Crops, 17 bs. ; IG bs. ; 12 bs.; 9^ bs. per acre. 

 Remarks. Crop of 17 bushels, with soap-boilers' waste at 175 bushels 

 per acre ; seed. Black Sea wheat. This respectable farmer has undertaken 

 the purchase of ashes and the manufacture of soap, that he may have ad- 

 vantage of the leached ashes upon his farm. The effects on his grass are 

 very encoin-aging 



HALIFAX —Claimants, :'',. Acres sown, 8 95-160. Product, 07 bs. 



Average per acre, 7| bs. 

 Crojjs, Klg bs. ; 7 bs. per acre. 

 Remarks. One crop six bushels jjer acre. Suffered from frost in June. 



HANOVER.— Claimants, G. Acres sown, Hi. Product, 101 bushels. 



Average per acre, D bs. 



Crops, 14 bs. ; 10 0-7 bs. ; four of 7^ bs. per acre. 

 Remarks. Largest crop with 12 loads of compost from the yard. Crops 

 suffered from drought. 



HANSON.^Ciaimants, 5. Acres sown, I.'JS. Product, J 15 bushels. 



Average per acre, 8h bs. 



Cro|)s, IQi bs ; 8h bs. ; two of 8 bs. ; 7| bs. per acre. 

 Remarks. Barn manure applied with great liberality. The crojjs injured 

 by drought 



KINGSTON — Claimants, 7. Acres sown, 20. Product, 140 bushels. 



Average per acre, 7 G-20 bs. 



Largest crops, lOf bs i)er acre; 9 lis.; S l-IO bs. per acre. 

 Remarks. "In the crop of nine bushels per acre, twenty tons of compost 

 manure jter acre were ap|)lied on half an acre being the lowland; and three 

 hundred bushels o( leached ashes per acre on one and a half acre, being the 

 sandy, loamy, gravelly and low land. The wheat was badly shrunk by the 

 drought; " that on the low land suffering most." Crops suffered severely by 

 the drought. 



