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Within the last twelve months, I have prepared and applied several 

 tons, with satisfactory results. One instance I will here state, after 

 telling the manner of preparing the above mentioned substitute. 



To one barrel of human urine, I add six pounds of sulphate of 

 magnesia ; after dissolving the salts, I mix this with as much dry 

 gypsum as will form a mass about the consistency of leached ashes ; of 

 this I apply three bushels per acre, to grass or plowed land. 



On the first of May last I commenced plastering with dry plaster 

 a field of six acres, (old meadow;) on the first acre I put three bushels 

 of dry plaster; the next two acres I put the above preparation three 

 bushels per acre ; on the balance of the field I put dry plaster three 

 bushels per acre ; I then turned the sward over and prepared it with 

 the harrow for corn, and planted it. When the corn came up, I put 

 dry plaister over the whole alike, and tilled it all alike, the last of 

 September I chained off an acre of that which had the compound on, 

 and another beside it of equal quality of soil, and each were husked 

 separate ; the first yield was one hundred and twenty-two bushels, 

 and the other thirty. So my thirty-two bushels did not cost to ex- 

 ceed one cent per bushel. More anon. 



Greece, Monroe co. JY. Y. 



EXTRACT FROM LEWIS COUNTY REPORT. 



First premium awarded to Israel Knight, Lo7Cville, 



Previous crop potatoes, planted on sward ; fifteen to twenty loads 

 cow stable manure turned under present crop ; land plowed once ; 

 two bushels of Black Sea wheat, soaked in strong brine and dried 

 w^ith ashes, sowed per acre ; harrowed well and rolled. 



Product 34 bushels 13 quarts, at 95., ,, |38 70 



Expense of cultivation, $8 GO 



Interest on land at $30, per acre, _.- . 2 10 



— 10 10 



Profit per acre, $28 60 



