Xiv BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



for the past fifteen years — from 1000 to 1500 lbs. per year, and 

 have had very good success with it. I bought Coe's, first, and 

 then Bradley's, and then I thought if I was going to use super- 

 phosphate I had better buy two kinds and try them. I got two 

 barrels each of Rradley's and the Cumberland, measured it out 

 and dropped it myself; went seven rows with one kind and then 

 seven with the other, and so on until I used the two casks. I 

 could see but little difierence in my corn. I thought that on the 

 Cumberland ripened a little earlier, but not enough to make any 

 account of. The next year I sowed oats and had about 75 bushels 

 to the acre. I spread on what dressing I used and harrowed it in. 

 One of my neighbors was looking at the oats and he said to me, 

 " You can see where each of your rows of corn was last year ;" 

 and come to look, you could tell where part of it was, and I went 

 through the piece and you could tell where the seven rows of 

 Cumberland were and couldn't discern the Bradley's. And so I 

 concluded that you do not lose the Cumberland the first year — that 

 it leaves something in the ground that the other does not, and I 

 have used it every year since. I have sowed some on grass land 

 but thought it was not so cheap as the lime and plaster, and these 

 answered every purpose. By putting on four casks of lime and 

 three bushels of plaster I can get three tons of hay to the acre — 

 as much as I can with a liberal dressing of manure. I do not know 

 as I could follow that up. I generally put on lime at one time, 

 and the next time put on manure and put my lime in another 

 place, and sometimes I put on a little manure and three or four 

 casks of lime to the acre. When I was paying for my land I hired 

 money to buy lime and superphosphate, and I found when I bought 

 the most I could pay the mosst. I have used ashes some. Some say 

 leached ashes are as good as uuleached. I have not found them so. 

 I bought some leached ashes last year and sowed them, and I 

 noticed that the grass did not grow well on that edge of the piece 

 where they were sown, I think farmers do not keep accounts 

 enough to know what their crops are paying. I love farming so 

 well that I take all the notice I can, and try experiments, and if I 

 try a new method I try to see what it costs and what my profits 

 come from. I think quite an improvement has been made in farm- 

 ing in my section of the town since I came there. I sow four 

 casks of lime per acre, if I sow it without plaster, but I think it 

 is better with plaster — I mean four casks before it is slacked. I 

 buy the best lime I can and think it is the cheapest. It will 



