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manured ; also, fifteen or twenty loads spread on this year. Corn 

 stout and good. 



Where lutrogcnized Phosphate was used, the land was in the 

 game condition. Spread on same amount of manure this year as 

 •where Poudrette Avas used — used three hundred and twenty pounds of 

 Phosphate for the hill. Scarcely any difference between this piece 

 and where Poudrette was used — if any, in favor of Phosphate. The 

 half acre on which we put the Imp. Phosphate was the stoutest 

 piece we had. It was planted on sod turned over last fall — with a 

 good coat of manure — used one hundred and sixty pounds of Phos- 

 phate for the hill. •> 



Where we used guano, we got a fair crop, but the corn did not 

 grow so stout as on the other pieces. We used on one and a half 

 acre, three bags. 



We think we can use the Phosphate profitahhj in raising corn. 



Our land is all a light sandy soil. We harvest nearly, if not 

 quite as many bushels of corn where we manure in hill with Phos- 

 phate as where we manure in hill with horse manure, worked over 

 by the hogs." 



In conclusion, your committee would recommend, that the Board, 

 at their next session, take measures to secure the further investiga- 

 tion of this matter, and that the Legislature be petitioned to appoint 

 a State Assayer to analyze such articles and substances as may be 

 ordered by the Governor and Council, at the State's expense, for 

 the purpose of exposing frauds in the sale of concentrated manures, 

 or such as claim to be such. 



In behalf of the committee. 



Darius Forbes. 



REPORT ON TREATMENT AND VALUE OF MUCK. 



The Committee to whom was committed the subject of "the 

 yalue of swamp or bog muck, and the best method of treating and 

 composting the same," having attended to that duty, beg leave to 

 make the following report : 



That they have been unable to obtain any such definite informa- 

 tion, as will enable them to show by figures, the specific or compar- 



