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Prom Communications made to the American Institutei 



The following is from a practical farmer in New-Jersey in relatioti 

 to the treatment of salt hay and sedge. 



He states : — That after three years experience he came to the con- 

 clusion that by mowing all his salt meadows he improved them very 

 much. . By placing a large portion of the grass in his barn-yard, where 

 he kept some 40 head of cattle, he could make more manure than he 

 could well use, make it cheaper, and thought it of better quality than 

 any he cculd get. His plan was to haul it from his barn-yard fall and 

 spring, pile it in as large heaps as possible, and on every two or three 

 loads of his manure to strew two or three hundred pounds of potash, 

 and cover the whole with sods, and leave it so until it was required to 

 spread it, and then just before spreading he would turn it over. The 

 cost of mowing, raking and carting the grass from the meadow to the 

 barn-yard was $1.25 per acre, each acre yielding five farmer's loads 

 of grass. He made the comparison between the cost of 100 loads of 

 manure prepared in this way, and delivered on the field, and a like 

 quantity obtained from this city, as follows : 



$1 ,25 per acre, for five loads, is for one hundred loads, $25 00 



Team and man at $2 per day, for 15 loads, is for 100 loads, ... 13 33 



do for hauling 30 loads per day, 6 67 



100 pounds potash sweepings at 3 ^ cents per pound, 3 50 



Labor in covering. 50 



$49 00 



100 loads New-York street manure, $28 00 



Hauling 20 loads per day at $2, is for 100 loads, 10 00 



Freight at 18 cents per load, 18 00 



$57 00 



