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hundred and fifteen acres of it. Its valuation is now doubled, 

 although the croi^s have been sold off. He has sold from $20,000 to 

 $25,000 worth of crops annually. The crops for 1880 were esti- 

 mated to give for 150 acres 40 bushels of wheat per acre ; 80 acres 

 of oats, 64 to 72 bushels per acre ; 40 acres sanfoin, value $G0 per 

 acre, and 134 acres of barley, 48 bushels per acre. His tenant's 

 income aside from landlords' income has averaged $3000. 



In my practice I have often received 85 per cent, of applied fer- 

 tilizers in first crop. Lawes and Gilbert rarel}', in their moist climate 

 which leaches rather than evaporates its moisture, received 50 per 

 cent, return of fertilizer. Tliis is a most encouraging fact for us. Mr. 

 Front's only stock is a cow and two pigs. Thousands of less brilliant 

 instances might be named of profitable use of chemicals on a light 

 scale in this country. I will name onl}' a few instances that have 

 come into my hands within a short time, from gentlemen with whom 

 I had correspondence in the spring in regard to their use. 



Mr. D. B. Wheelock of Barre, Vt., had several plats laid out. 

 Sixteen 25-bushel cart loads of manure per acre gave 52 2-7 bushels 

 ears of corn; the addition of $6.10 worth of dissolved bone-black 

 and muriate of potash gave 83 2-7 bushels, or an increase of 31 2-7 

 bushels over the manured part, the fertilizers being added to the 

 manure, or for $1 of fertilizer an increase of 5 bushels of corn and 

 300 lbs. of stover. Twelve dollars and twent}' cents' worth of 

 superphosphates as usualh* used gave but 70 5-7 bushels. J. A. 

 AYhitcher of Strafl^ord, N. H., got 5 1-5 more bushels of corn and 

 1040 lbs. more of stover where he used 270 lbs. of dissolved bone- 

 black and 150 lbs. muriate of potash than he did where he used 18 

 loads of 3'ard manure. His were ox loads, I suppose, of 40 bushels. 

 G. W. Sanborn of Gilmauton, N. H., got in a full experiment of 

 15 plats, with 21 tons of good strong yard manure, 58.45 bushels 

 shelled corn per acre ; with 400 lbs. of dissolved bone-black and 200 

 lbs. muriate of potash, 59 bushels per acre ; best of chemicals, $12. 

 Mr. Henry Hough of Lebanon, N. H., got 125 bushels of ears per 

 acre with about $12 to $14 of chemicals per acre. Mr. Hough's 

 statement of cost I lost, but know very nearl}' the cost. It was less 

 than $14. He is a free user of 3'ard manure — the amount I have 

 lost — and got no more from its use on an adjoining acre. J..B. 

 Potter of Goflstown, N. H., received on ground without manure 37^ 

 bushels of shelled corn, on ground with 207 lbs. bone-black and 

 125 lbs. of muriate ot potash, 66 bushels. In all of the above 



