26 T KANSAC TIONS. 



Pasturing, ...... 



Garden vegetables, . . . . . 



Apples, ....... 



3 bushels of white beans, . . . . 



Expenses. 



My own and hired labor. 



Interest on valuation. 



Taxes, 



Seed, .... 



Surplus profits, . . . . . $195 46 



Pelham, June, 1, 1856. 



THEOPHILUS P. HUNTINGTON'S STATEMENT. 



My farm in Hadley, near the Connecticut river, contains twenty- 

 six acres under constant culture, twelve acres of light, sandy soil, that 

 have been cropped about one year in four, and eleven acres in wood. 

 Some portions have been reclaimed recently. My attempts to enrich 

 my light, sandy soil proved failures and worse than failures — mere 

 robbery of the more valuable parts of the farm — until 1855. I then 

 applied to three acres a thousand pounds of guano, and harvested a 

 crop of more than a hundred bushels of corn, which was worth more 

 than the land could have been sold for in the spring. I have made 

 experiments in raising broom corn, without the use of manure from 

 the farm, by substituting phosphates. I succeeded, the past year, in 

 getting a fair crop, with only one hundred pounds to the acre, applied 

 in the hill ; but twice that quantity might be better. My theory is, 

 that the stalks, which are plowed in, and the phosphate will restore 

 all, that the crop has taken from the land. If our valley farmers can 

 raise broom corn with phosphate, and good crops of Indian corn and 

 other grains on light, sandy soils with guano, their grass lands can 

 have the benefit of all their home made manures. 



For a more particular description of my farm, I refer to my state- 

 ment published in Secretary Flint's Agriculture of Massachusetts, 

 for 1854, pp. 40 — 45, and in the Transactions of the Hampshire So- 

 ciety for the same year. 



