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REPORT OF GEORGE .1. PIERCE, OF WEST NEWBURY, ON 

 IMPROVING WASTE LAND. 



The land I enter for a premium was a bushy pasture 

 and waste land, situated on Break Hill, on the main road 

 from Haverhill to Newburyport. 



In 1892, I mowed and burned tlie buslies and planted it- 

 with corn. It cost me $3.00 per acre for mowing and 

 burning the bushes, for ploughing with 4 oxen and 3 men, 

 '17.00 per acre ; spread on T) cords of dressing to the acre 

 and harrowed in ; then planted with corn and potatoes, 

 harvested 250 busliels of ears of corn, 50 l)ushels of pota- 

 toes and 3 bushels of beans. 



In 1893, spread on 5 cords of dressing per acre and 

 sowed barley for fodder and set out 4000 strawberry, 

 plants, and one half acre of potatoes ; in the fall we had 3 

 tons barley fodder and 50 bushels of potatoes. 



In 1894, spread on 4 cords of dressing to the acre and 

 sowed it down with barley and grass. I had a good catch 

 of grass and 3 1-2 tons of barley fodder, and 2500 boxes 

 of strawberries. 



In fall of '93, mowed and burned bushes and ploughed 

 land, cleared oft" the rocks this spring and prepared the 

 ground for corn, planted the Longfellow corn, used horse 

 hoe 3 times and hand hoe once. There are 3 acres and 11 

 rods in corn. Harvested 400 bushels of sound corn. There 

 were 3 tons and 900 lbs. of top stalks, and 3 tons, 840 lbs. of 

 fodder. Put on tlie corn 600 lbs. of fertilizer at $S6 per 

 ton. 



Respectfully submitted, 



George J. Pierce. 



I hereby certify that I have measured a piece of re- 

 claimed pasture land for George J. Pierce of West New- 

 bury, to be entered for premium with Essex Agricultural 

 Society, and find it contains 10 acres, 33 1-2 rods, of which 

 there is in grass, 3 acres, 153 rods ; in barley and garden 



