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out twice in each row, and hoed it well in. August 1st, went 

 through it with cultivator and cut up the weeds with a hoe. 



Expense. — Ploughing and spreading manure, $4 00 ; manure 

 and carting, f 4S 00 ; planting and seed corn, %o 00 ; hoeing and 

 cultivating, ^4 50 ; harvesting, ^3 50. Total, ^67 00. 



Credit. — Corn 97 5-75 bash, at seventy cents, ^67 95 ; corn 

 fodder, ^12 00 ; land improved by extra manuring, $18 00 ; 

 Total, <|97 95. 



East Bridgewater, Oct. 1846. 



Josiah Whittnan^s Statement. 



The acre of land on which I have raised my corn, was mowed 

 in 1845, cut one third of a ton to the acre. April 16, 1846, 

 carted on the manure that the cattle and hogs made, and mixed 

 with soil from near the fence, and left it in four heaps. May 6th, 

 ploughed the ground. 19th to 23d, harrowed and furrowed it 

 three feet apart ; drew the manure from the heaps, put in the 

 hill as near two feet apart as we could, and planted the corn, 

 which was white, or smutty white, from the corn I raised last 

 season, and selected when husking the same, three stalks in the 

 hill. Five cords manure made as above stated. June 10th, 

 cultivated and hoed it ; July 15th, same ; 27th, pulled out the 

 weeds ; Sept. 7th to 9th, cut the stalks; Oct. 5th, harvested. 



Expense. — Drawing manure and ploughing, $3 00 ; harrow- 

 ing, planting, &c. $5 00; five cords compost manure, $15 00; 

 seed, 50 cts. ; hoeing twice, $5 CO ; pulling weeds, seventy-five 

 cents ; cutting stalks, $5 00 ; harvesting, $7 00 ; Total, $44 25. 



Income. — Manure not spent for use of land, top stalks, $8 00 ; 

 butt stalks, $7,00 ; 91 55-75 bush, corn, at seventy-five cts. 

 $68 80. Total, $83 80. Profit, $39 55. 



East Bridgewater, Oct. 5th, 1846. 



Anthony Collamore's Statement. 



The land on which the experiment was made, to prove "the 

 influence of sub-soil ploughing on the corn crop," was a sandy 



