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as an agricultural value, and these two values don't always 

 agree. 



The Chairman. There is one thing we find when we 

 strike the subject of manure, we strike the key-note. We 

 are all interested in this question more than anything else. 

 I hope some of these gentlemen present will tell us how they 

 use their manure. 



Mr. BoARDMAN. I am aware that Dr. Sturtevant is to 

 talk this afternoon on another subject, but he has volunteered 

 a word or two on this matter and I have no doubt the 

 audience would be pleased to hear from him. 



Dr. Sturtevant. I would rather coniine myself to my 

 subject, but I will state one point. There are, I believe, 

 three essentials ; the seed, the soil and the treatment. The 

 agricultural writers speak of the agricultural value of manure. 

 I don't believe we know it. Difierent men have ditferent 

 ways of doing their farm work. I can sow in one way and 

 get one result, while you will sow in another way- and get 

 another result; both, perhaps, equally good. 



Mr. Leland. I wish to ask Mr. Harris if he considers 

 the waste of nitrogen and ammonia in the way h6 prepares 

 his manure? 



Mr. Harris. I do not bother my head about that matter 

 at all. The amount I lose is so small that I do not stop to 

 consider it. I aim to save all I can. I want my farming to 

 benefit my pocket as well as expand my brains. I think my 

 plan of preparing my manure to be a good one, saving both 

 money and time. 



Mr. BiCKFORD. It is known that the principal crop in 

 this region is the hay crop, so farmers apply nuich to the 

 surface of their land, and the question arises whether this is 

 an advisable method or not. There are many in these parts 

 who apply their manure to their mowing fields ; mau}^ of the 

 farmers about here do it ; I have done it myself. The land 

 where I applied it was rather low, moist land. I tried ashes 

 to the upland, where the grass had, in a measure run out, 

 and the next year it came up thick to clover ; also the second 



