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It is worthy of remark, that in No. 2, where no manure was used, 

 that the yield was 60i bushels — in No. 3, where 150 loads of unfer- 

 mented manure was used, the yield was 70 bushels — a gain of 9^ 

 bushels to be ascribed to the manure; in No. 4, with the like amount 

 of unfermented manure, and 25 loads of fine manure, the product was 

 80 bushels — a gain of 10 bushels, to be ascribed to the fine manure — 

 showing that one load of fine is worth more than six loads of coarse 

 manure. While No. 6, which was manured with the fine only, yield- 

 ed 65 J bushels — a gain of 5 J bushels to be ascribed to the same 

 amount of fine manure — showing that one load of fine is worth about 

 three and a quarter of coarse manure. But the land on which No. 6 

 was raised, was not as rich as Nos. 2, 3 and 4, owing to the fact that 

 it was so situated in the field that it had not been as highly manured 

 in those years gone by, when manure was only drawn out of the barn- 

 yard "to get rid of it." Nos. 2, 3 and 4 were nearer the gate, and 

 had been served about alike, and furnished the fairest test of the value 

 of the different kinds of manure. 



Some of the results obtained by these experiments were unexpected. 

 The highest yield is very far below the great crops that have been 

 reported. I know not why a hundred or more bushels to the acre 

 were not raised on No. 4, with manure both on top and under the 

 furrow, amounting to 150 of the coarse, and 25 loads of fine, to the 

 acre — and that, too, along side of land that, without manure^ yielded 

 more than 60 bushels to the acre. 



I purpose the next year to plant all of this ground with corn, and 

 carefully measure the product of each piece, with a view of learning 

 the effects of this manuring for the second year. 



All of which is repectfully submitted. 



GEORGE GEDDES. 



Camillus, November 21st, 1844. 



