120 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



that one-fourth of good loam, ■\voll mixed with stable manure, fer crops, 

 is preferable to the stable manure alone. 



Swamp muck and peat abound in any desirable quantity all about 

 town, and it has been used to some extent, with the most happy 

 results ; and farmers are beginning to appreciate it as it deserves. 

 By hauling it into the burn-yard, and allowing the cattle to yard on it, 

 at the rate of one-half cord per head, and put one-half cord of 

 leached ashes — unleached would be better — to two cords of muck, 

 and mix it well. The best way is to spread it in the yard, and let 

 the cattle mix it, and it makes one of the best manures for corn that 

 can be got up. » 



Take an equal quantity of muck or peat, and sea-weed or rock-weed, 

 and mix well together, by throwing them into a snug heap, and 

 allow it to remain long enough to pass through a state of fermen- 

 tation, the sea-weed disappears and the heap is left in a finely pulver- 

 ized state. This is the best and cheapest manure I ever saAV. I have 

 seen the finest crops of corn, potatoes, and cabbages raised on it, that 

 I ever saw grow, and it is good for any crop. Muck is good to put 

 under the stable, privy, sink-spout, and about the door-yard, to catch 

 the soap suds and all other slops, for it is a great absorbent. Let it 

 lie one season, and then collect it together and add one-tenth part 

 of leachod ashes, and it makes a first rate manure for wheat and other 

 grains, and is excellent to spread on grass lands, for a top-dressing." 



FROM WILLIAM GKEGG. 



" Ignorance to a great degree prevails here, as elsewhere, in regard 

 to the value of substances to be converted to manurial purposes. 

 There are some attempts at composting, mostly with rock-weed and 

 muck, and barn-yard manure. Stable manures arc mostly used in a 

 crude state. 



Manures might easily be increased one hundred per cent., by having 

 barn cellars, or other receptacles, in which to collect the thousand and 

 one things that might go to make up the compost heap, such as refuse 

 bones, ashes, weeds, leaves, scrapings from the roadside and ditches, 

 muck, night slops from the house, soap suds, &;c., &c. 



On many farms there are deposits of muck, that have been used to - 

 some extent. It has generally been used in a crude state, or merely 

 mixed with rock-weed. The results, perhaps, have not always been 

 so marked and apparent as to secure perseverance, although the soil 

 was permanently improved thereby. 



Last year, the first super-phosphate was used, except a very small 

 quantity the year previous. Eight tuns were sold and used in lots 

 varying from one hundred and fifty pounds to half a tun, mostly ap- 



