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The land on which my experiment in raising white beans was 

 made was a Hght, sandy loam, and measured ninety square rods. 

 It was planted with corn last year, and yielded a very light crop. 

 The corn hills were split open with a plough in April, and the 

 last of May it was harrowed, and one cord of compost from the 

 barn-yard spread on it. On the second day of June it was 

 ploughed four inches deep. I then, on the 3d of June, with a 

 hand corn-dropper, (without furrowing or marking,) dropped ten 

 beans in each place, about twenty inches apart each way, and 

 covered them with a hoe. The only after cultivation bestowed 

 on them was JGifteen hours' work with the hoe — ten bushels of wood 

 ashes being applied, a handful to each hill, around the roots, just 

 before hoeing. The crop was harvested in the fore part of Sep- 

 tember, and threshed and sold before the end of the month. 

 They were quite a small kind of bean, and the product was 

 9 24-64 bushels of 64 pounds. 



The value of the crop was — 



9 24-64 bushels, at $3.00 per bushel, 

 Haulm, or straw, 



^28.20 

 2.00 



Leaving a profit of 



. $12.00 

 H. W. Jones. 



Lover, Nov. 3, 1862. 



STATEMENT OF H. L. STONE. 



The field of corn I offer for premium contains 47,394 feet, as 

 measured by R. Mansfield, surveyor, and consists in part of an 

 old mowing field, which had not been ploughed within the memory 

 of the neighbors, and for several years past had not been consid- 

 ered worth mowing. About half of it was a light, sandy loam, and 

 the other half was a low, gravelly clay, wet and cold, and needed 

 For the low portion, this wet season has been very un- 



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