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before, till all is used. I have also a vat under my sink-spout 

 Tvliere I have made two cords by filling it with muck ; also some two 

 cords in the hog-yard, by putting in muck and turf; and about eight 

 cart-loads in the shed where we took away the horse manure, which 

 we filled with muck, the whole of the yard draining into it. We 

 keep muck under the privy, and all other places where any thing 

 may run to waste. After using this fertilizer for three years, I can 

 recommend the same mode of preparation to others. My hen-roost 

 is in the shed, and all their droppings are in the compost. 



Lewis Gilbert. 



Crops. 



Tristram Hill raised fifteen and one-half bushels of Scotch Fyfe 

 wheat on a dark colored loam which was in corn last year ; plowed 

 eight inches deep and sowed one and one-half bushels of seed, broad- 

 cast, on the 20th of May; the seed was soaked and dried in lime; 

 harvested on the 20th of August when quite green. 



Charles Maxwell of Poland, raised twelve and one-half bushels 

 of Golden Straw wheat upon a sandy loam fifteen inches deep, rest- 

 ing on an open subsoil of yellow loam ; land was in grass last year, 

 and manured in the hill ; plowed eight inches deep and harrowed ; 

 sowed the seed on the 2Gth of April, and harvested on the 25th of 

 August, when fully ripe. 



Zebina Briggs raised one hundred and sixty bushels of ears of 

 corn on a stiff clayey soil one foot deep. Has been in pasture. 

 Plowed eight inches and harrowed; twenty loads of manure, well 

 rotted, was applied; planted on the 28th of May in hills three and 

 one-half feet apart; hoed twice and cut up at the stalks when nearly 

 ripe, on the 30th of' September. 



Peter Garcelon raised one hundred and fifty bushels of ears of 

 corn on a fine soil, part of which is stony and a part clayey loam ; 

 broke up late last fall ; plowed ten inches deep and applied forty 

 loads of slaughter and hog manure with the addition of a load of 

 sand to four loads of the manure ; fourteen loads of the same ma- 

 nure were applied in the hills, and in each hill a tea spoonful of ft 



