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Amount of corn on the whole piece, 41 bushels 64 lbs. ; on 

 the limed part, 21 bush. 55 lbs. ; on the other part, 20 bush. 9 lbs. 



Amount of potatoes on the whole piece, 35 bushels ; on the 

 limed part, 18 bushels 24 lbs. ; on the other part, 16 bushels 

 36 lbs. 



1844, prepared the ground and sowed it to rye and grass. 

 Whole amount of rye, 7 bush. 12 qts. On the limed part, 4 



bush. 4 qts. ; on the other part, 3 bush. 8 qts. The straw not 

 weighed, but estimated at a quarter more on the limed part than 

 on the other. 



1845, July 4, mowed the grass and made it. Whole amount 

 by weight was 869 lbs. On the limed part, 528 lbs. ; on the 

 other part, 341 lbs. 



1846, July 6, mowed the grass and made it. On the limed 

 part, 792 lbs. ; on the other, 636 lbs. Whole amount on both 

 pieces, 1428 lbs. 



East Bridgewater, Sept. 16, 1846. 



Paul Hathaway^ s Statement. 



The experiment I have made is as follows : — One acre of 

 land, I sowed three bushels of plaster, leaving one strip through 

 the piece. In 1845, at mowing time, it was thought one fourth 

 more. In 1846, the same quantity was sown of plaster, and 

 fourteen rods plastered weighed 236 lbs., fourteen rods not plas- 

 tered weighed 163 lbs., making 650 lbs in favor of the plaster. 

 This piece is a gravelly loam. 



One other piece, three quarters of an acre, was sown in 1845, 

 at the rate of two bushels of plaster to the acre — land, sandy 

 loam in a good condition. 1846, was dressed with two bushels as 

 last year, and weighed : Ten rods plastered, 263 lbs., ten rods 

 not plastered, 205 lbs., making 960 lbs. in favor of the plaster. 

 I have made use of plaster upon two other pieces of mowing 

 with equal success. 



I have plastered all my potatoes ; my hands have been digging 

 to-day ; found 5 or 6 diseased. I would here remark, that I 



