42 



Expense, Harrowing and sowing, - - 2 00 

 Harvesting, - 2 00 



Threshing and cleaning, 



CHARLES NICHOLSON. 



Leominster, Sept. 18, 1855. 



W. G. Wyman's Statement. 

 The acre of Corn which I offer for your examination is 

 part of a field of three and one-fourth acres, which in 1853 

 produced only 1650 pounds of hay, it having been mowed 

 eight years previously. In the autumn of that year it was 

 ploughed. The soil is mostly a light yellowish loam, rather 

 stoney. The field inclines very much to the East. In 1854 

 about one half of it was planted with corn, manured with a 

 compost manufactured out of doors from the droppings of my 

 cows and swine the summer previous, mixed with loam and 

 weeds, together with the scrapings from under an old barn, 

 three dollars worth of ashes and six loads of stable manure, 

 the whole mixed together in the Spring, spread evenly and 

 ploughed in. The remainder of the field was manured 

 very lightly in the hill and planted with potatoes and beans, 

 but not ploughed at all. 



Last Spring the whole field was manured with about thir- 

 teen and one half cords of compost, manufactured in my bam 

 cellar from the droppings of one horse, two cows, two calves, 

 and three pigs, from the 10th of September, 1854, to April 

 1st, 1855, mixed with loam, weeds, and meadow muck, to- 

 gether with four cords manufactured in the field from the 

 cleanings of the vault, three barrels of urine, four or five 

 bushels of lime and ashes in which some animal matter had 

 been dissolved, mixed with two loads of hog manure, and 

 ten loads of meadow muck, making in all about seventeen 

 and one half cords, say fifty-two loads spread evenly and 

 ploughed in with a side-hill plough running from eight to 

 eleven inches deep. 



The field was harrowed once and marked one way with 



