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crop I got $966.00. The crop of rye was a beautiful sight, 

 but it did not pay like that vile weed they call tobacco. 



Question. What kind of manure was used for the tobacco? 



Dr. Riggs. I bought 500 bushels of leached ashes from a 

 canal boat that came up the river. Sixty bushels of that I 

 put upon that field, and the remainder I spread over another 

 jfield of twenty acres, a part of it tobacco land, and a part of it 

 in grass. There can be no mistake, gentlemen, about the 

 value of leached ashes. I had that impressed upon my mind 

 by my father. When going across a field with him, he would 

 freqr.cn tly turn round to me, strike me on the shoulder, and 

 say, "Remember this — land never forgets ashes." He would 

 go down to the village, a mile and a quarter away, and pick 

 up all the ashes he could get, and cart them up the hill to his 

 farm. He had a way of impressing these things upon our 

 youthful minds, sometimes with a birch, and sometimes with 

 his hand. I repeat, there can be no mistake about the value 

 of ashes. 



Adjourned to evening. 



Evening Session. 



The meeting was called to order at seven o'clock, by Vice- 

 President Hyde, who stated that the first subject on the pro- 

 gramme was 



Oats, Barley, and Buckwheat. 



Mr. Gold. I have before me the agricultural census for 

 1860 ; that for 1870 is not yet completed, and in default of 

 that, some reference to the census of 1860 may help us with 

 regard to our discussions upon the relative importance of these 

 different crops. 



Connecticut, in 1860, is reported to have raised 52,401 

 bushels of wheat ; 618,702 bushels of rye ; only seven states 

 of the Union being ahead of this little stat€ in the production 



