IgQ BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



B. (Pag-c 21.) 



EEPOllT OF COMMITTEE. 



In Board of Agriculture, State of Maine. 



The Committee to wliom was referred tlie questions, '• What 

 is the real want of Agriculture in this State, at this time? 

 How is this want to be met?" — with sundry resolutions par- 

 taking of the nature of instructions, having had the subject under 

 consideration, and given it all the thought their time and cir- 

 cumstances would admit, beg leave to report as follows: — 



In taking into consideration the condition of the agricultural 

 interests of the State, one of the first things that attracts our 

 attention, is the paucity of fertilizers. This fact forces itself 

 on our attention equally, whether we ramble over the cultivated 

 fields of the State, o? interrogate the operators themselves. 

 Ask the farmers in every neighborhood, and in every part of the 

 State — What do you most need to make your operations in the 

 highest degree successful? and the uniform and unvarying reply 

 will be — more manure — a greater quantity of fertilizers. Thus, 

 is the crv of the tillers of the soil and of the soil itself, going 

 up from one end of the State to the other — Fertilizers!' 

 Fertilizers!! FERTILIZERS!!! — give Us more fertilizinir 

 onatter! 



All are united in the conviction and admission, that the mere 

 droppings of the domestic animals which can be sustained by 

 any farm, are totally inadequate to meet the demand for fertil- 

 izing matter by that farm. And every intelligent farmer knows, 

 that were an entire stop put to the present enormous waste of 

 stable manure, from bleaching, washing, and the neglect of 

 means to save the urine, this source would be totally inadequate 

 to restore our exhausted fields to primitive fertility, much less. 



