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corn and potatoes. I have not kept an exact account of the expense or profit, 

 but think the pasturage and crops have vfell paid for what f expended." 



N. S. Hooper, Cambridge. 



"I should recommend first, muck composted, if not practicable, plow and 

 seed with buckwheat or clover ; to be turned under." 



Elijah Barrell, Greene. 



" Plow in green crops, such as buckwheat, oats, or corn, sowed broadcast, 



and repeat the operation." 



S. Haskell, Cape Elizabeth. 



«' I would recommend sowing oats, and plowing them in when fiiirly headed 



out. A repetition of this, for three successive years, would produce a marked 



change in the soil, and I think would be the cheapest way to obtain the 



desired result." 



J. W. Ambrose, Wells. 



" Rake and save all the manure of every description. Break your ground 



ten inches deep, sow clover to plow in ; turn out old fields to pasture, and 



plow up old pastures." 



D. H. TuiNG, Mt. Vernon. 



" In order to recover partially exhausted lands, when there is lack of capital 

 to purchase fertilizers, I would recommend sowing clover, or buckwheat, and 

 turning under, with frequent and deep plowing." 



0. B. Sumner, Appleton. 



" I would plow in green crops, use swamp muck, and be more economical 

 in the saving and application of every thing that contains fertilizing proper- 

 ties." 



N. H. Powers. 



" Exhausted lands may be recovered by plowing in whatever grass may be 



growing about tlie first of July, and sow with oats, or almost any thing else, 



and plow that crop in, in the autumn." 



Mark Dennett, Kittery. 



" Apply labor unstinted. Cultivate your land. Do not skim the soil, and 

 turn it over, and sow or plant it, and let it lie until foul, and get all you can 

 from it, and then put it to grass and mow it as long as you can get any hay 

 from it. You must plow it as though you meant it ; dig it, work it, see what 

 it is made of; beat it all to pieces ; then sow a bushel of buckwheat, and when 

 it is eiglit inches high, turn it over, and sow another bushel, and after turn- 

 ing that in, try grass, or some other crop, and if it wont grow, you may give 



it up. But it will grow." 



Aaron Hoag, Gardiner. 



The plowing under of green crops is justly considered one of the 

 most feasible and economical methods of bringing up and renovating 

 worn and exhausted soils. In its practice, as in that of growing 



