236 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Report of an experiment in the application of manure upon \ acre 

 of hind, tried in 1860, hy Augustus Sprague, of Greene, Androscog- 

 gin County. 



The soil, a clayey loam, rather moist, and retentive of manure. 

 Subsoil, clay. 



Twelve cords of green stable manure were applied to the acre. 



The crop grown was potatoes. 



Product on first fourth — manure plowed under eight inches deep, 

 at the rate of two hundred and two bushels to the acre. 



Product on second fourth — manure plowed under four inches deep, 

 at the rate of two hundred and eighteen bushels to the acre. 



Product on third fourth — manure cultivated or harrowed in, at 

 the rate of two hundred and thirteen bushels to the acre. 



Product on other fourth — manured on the surface, at the rate of 

 two hundred bushels to the acre. All sixty pounds to the bushel. 



The land was in grass in 1859 ; produced about one ton per acre, 

 broken up and planted about the middle of May. Season has been 

 remarkably dry. Thought potatoes on number four looked rather 

 the most thrifty in the fore part of the season, but since then, no 

 perceptible difference. 



Report of an experiment in the application of manure upon one 

 acre of land, tried in 1860, hy Samuel Haskell, residing in the town 

 of Gape Elizabeth, County of Cumberland. 



Character of the soil, light, sandy — subsoil, coarse sand, sev- 

 enty-fivo per cent, sand, or more. 



Amount and character of manure applied — one and a half cords 

 to every quarter acre, of crude manure, hauled from yard and spread 

 on the ground. 



Crop grown — potatoes. Whole crop assorted good size, one 

 hundred and five and half bushels ; small ones picked out, 

 sixteen and quarter bushels, in all one hundred and twenty-one 

 bushels. 



Product on first quarter acre, plowed manure under eight inches 

 deep, twenty-two and a half bushels large and ft)ur and a half bush- 

 els small — twenty-seven bushels. 



Product on second fourth — manure plowed under four inches 

 deep, twenty-two and three-quarters bushels large and three and a 

 half bushels small — twenty-six and one-quarter bushels. 



Product on third fourth — manure cultivated in, twenty-nine and 

 a half ^ushels large, and four and a half small — thirty-four bushels. 



