190 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



and enterprising farmer, and we are glad to know that he haa left 

 sons behind him, who are worthy to be his representatives : 



"We first made use of concentrated manure in 1855. At that 

 time we procured three bags (480 pounds) of Mapes' Imp. Super- 

 phosphate of Lime. This amount we used in making various ex- 

 periments, viz : First, we used enough to manure half an acre of 

 corn in the hill, using about one gill per hill. Second, we sowed 

 it on grass land. Third, sowed on summer rye. Also used some 

 about our gardening. The land on which we planted the corn had 

 no other dressing. We also took a crop of beans off of it the year 

 before — no dressing then. The corn grew well, and we got a good 

 crop. Under one row we put no phosphate, and from that we got 

 scarcely any corn. On the grass land it did not have any marked 

 effect. On the rye the effect was very visible. The rye on which 

 we sowed phosphate was stouter, the heads much longer and better 

 filled than rye beside it where no phosphate was used. In our 

 garden it had a marked effect on every thing on which we used it. 



Thus much for 1855. 



For use in 1856, we procured half a ton of phosphate — five hun- 

 dred pounds of the Nitrogenized, and five" hundred pounds of the 

 Imp. Super. We manured with three hundred pounds of each, two 

 acres of corn — usino- no other dressinfj; — an acre of each kind. 



Tlie corn grew as stout as Avhere Ave spread on twenty loads per 

 acre and then manured in the hill with horse manure well rotted and 

 worked over by hogs. The yield of corn was also as large. The 

 land, intervale pasture, "broken up" the fall before. 



About two hundred pounds we sowed on an acre of wheat — i6 

 grew immensely stout, but the weevil got most of the grain, so we 

 have no "bushels raised" to give. The remainder we used on our 

 roots, (beets, carrots, turnips, &c.) 



Our experiments thus far convinced us that we could use the 

 manure to better advantage in raising corn than in any other crop. 



In 1857 Ave planted four acres of corn, and manured in the hill 

 with concentrated manure, as folloAvs, viz : One acre with Poudrette, 

 using four barrels; one acre Avith Nitrogenized Superphosphate; 

 half acre with Imp. Superphosphate ; and half acre Avith guano. 



Where the Poudrette was used, we had corn last year — land well 



