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the maniire. Now, if there is any value in tliat compound^ 

 that kept itself back and showed itself in those weeds, I do 

 iiot know but I may get some benefit from it another year. 



Mr. Perry, of Woodstock. I used Mr. Ilayward's Com- 

 pound last spring, in a small way, on potatoes. I cannot 

 speak distinctly as to the benefit I derived from it, for I used 

 it on the whole piece and left none witliout it. I had about 

 an acre with no other manure than this manure compound. 

 The result was, I had a good crop of potatoes, as good as I have 

 ever raised. I used it on a piece of mangold-wurtzcls, and 

 there I saw a marked difference, for I used it only on a part of 

 the bed. I should think it increased the beets one-third ; and 

 otherwise they were treated all alike. There are others in 

 our town who have used it on corn, and been satisfied with 

 the result, as far as I have heard, and I have heard of some 

 who are making preparations to use it on a larger scale next 

 spring. 



Mr. Day, of Brooklyn. I have had some considerable ex- 

 perience in the cultivation of potatoes, and last year my crop 

 was a failure. The ground was cropped wdth rye the year 

 previously, a liberal coating of long manure spread on the sur- 

 face, and the ground plowed to the depth of about six inches, 

 harrowed, and marked into rows three feet or a little more 

 apart. My custom has been for the last twenty years, since 

 the potato-rot begdn to show itself, to plow in my manure ; to 

 plow the ground to the depth of about six inches, harrow, and 

 then run the plow down some three inches into the- soil, drop 

 the potatoes about twenty inches apart, and keep tlie ground 

 as nearly level as I can. I have had excellent success watli 

 the Early Rose. In the earlier part of my cultivation of it, 

 when it first came into notice, I raised nearly or quite a hun- 

 dred to one. Afterwards, I purchased the Climax potato, 

 from four pounds of which I raised nine bushels and seven 

 pounds — one hundred and thirty-seven to one. That was tw^o 

 yea s ago this harvest. Since that time I have failed to raise 

 a good crop of potatoes. I attributed the failure last season 

 to the dry weatlier just before the dog days set in, the 24th 

 or 25th of July, when my potato-tops were looking very finely. 



