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Marhlehead, Dec. I, 1860. 



SECOND STATEMENT OF BENJAMIN P. WARE. 



Upon the 20th of April, the land — a description of which 

 may be found in my last year's statement — being sufficiently 

 dry, I ploughed it eight inches deep, and then harrowed it. 

 May 30th I cross ploughed, harrowed and dragged it, which 

 left the land in good condition for the seed. June 1st I sowed 

 with Orange Globe mangolds, in drills twenty inches apart — ten 

 drills in each lot — using no manure upon any of the five lots. 

 I propose to continue the experiment upon lot No. 6 by the 

 spreading upon the furrows, after the cross ploughing, fine 

 compost manure, composed of meadow mud, sea kelp and sta- 

 ble manure, of equal parts, the whole drenched with night 



