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experiments of Mr. Dana, the daily feed of hay was equivalent 

 to four and a half tons of hay yearly. Now, if the feed had 

 been clover instead of hay, the manural value per year would 

 have been more than $72.00, according to Prof. Johnson's 

 theory. These conclusions are both from the results, as you 

 readily perceive, of practical and chemical investigation, and 

 are confirmed by practical and successful farmers. 



Josiah Quincy, Jr., says he has found that a good cow, 

 when fed on the soiliug system, yields 3^ cords of manure 

 per year, and by the addition of muck may be more than 

 doubled, both in quantity and value; and that the liquid 

 manure when absorbed with muck is still worth more than 

 the solid, making some 15 cords worth from $5 to $8 per 

 cord. Now, from this it appears that the manure is equiva- 

 lent in value to the milk. 



And now a word about the pigs, from Joseph Harris of 

 New York ; who knows, perhaps, as much about manures and 

 pigs as the most of farmers. He estimates that he received 

 forty-one and three-fourth cents' worth of manure per week 

 from pigs that were fed at a cost of thirty-seven and a half 

 cents per week. 



Now, let me say right here, in order to reclaim and reno- 

 vate our farms in Maine, we want and must have more scien- 

 tific farming ; and here do not let me be understood to mean 

 by scientific farming something taught only in books, theo- 

 retical in a large degree ; I do not mean any such thing. But 

 I do mean to sa}^, that every farmer who is skilled in farming, 

 men who at all times keep their farms in good condition, keep 

 good fences, plow and cultivate their ground at proper sea- 

 sons of the year, sow and plant at the right time, and have 

 proper care for everything about the farm, and see that noth- 

 ing goes to waste, and makes everything count for plant food, 

 all such men as these may be termed practical and scientific 

 farmers ; and you will find such men in all localities through- 

 out the length and breadth of the State. Do you ask, then, 

 how about our young men who graduate at our Agricultural 

 Colleges, as professors of this science? If they graduate 



