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tested, at all. What a more extended analj^sis of the mud 

 would have disclosed, making it unfit for corn, cannot be deter- 

 mined. The place from which it was taken, was where it must 

 have received a considerable amount of vegetable deposit, 

 annually, from the falling leaves. The potatoes manured in 

 the same manner, were good. Thirty hills would probably 

 make a bushel, — long reds. Turnips, occasionally found in the 

 hill with the corn, were of great size. The land was loamy — 

 a part of it rather flat, and the water may have stood upon 

 some spots of it, at times. A large part of the field, however, 

 was well situated for corn, and certainly presented no very 

 strong inducement to Mr. C. to try super-phosphate with 

 meadow mud iipon Indian corn again. Upon cabbage the 

 effect Avas good. Mr. C. i^lantcd cabbage seed with super- 

 phosphate, and no other manure ; and along side of this, he 

 planted cabbage seed without manure of any kind. This 

 experiment was most satisfactory, the super-phosphate giving a 

 fine crop, where, without it, there would have been none. The 

 result is, that upon Mr. C.'s farm, DeBurg's super-phosphate of 

 lime has done well on potatoes, and very well on turnips and 

 cabbage, while, with regard to the corn crop, Mr. C.'s remark 

 was, " I think I have lost one hundred and fifty dollars by my 

 experiment." He believes much of the failure was owing to 

 the mud ; but that is not so easy to be determined. 



Mr. D.'.s farm adjoins the last, and the efl^ect of the super- 

 phosphate of lime upon corn is about the same. Upon the 

 largest part of his corn field of three acres, manured with 

 compost manure, well mixed and made fine by forking over, 

 and applied at the rate of twelve ox-cart loads to the acre, 

 there appeared to be from forty to forty-five bushels of corn — 

 when shelled — to the acre. While on the portion along side of 

 this, with no manure Ijut the super-phosphate of lime — De 

 Burg's No. 1 — there would not have been Jive. On the pota- 

 toes, the super-phosphate of lime has not done so well for Mr. 

 D. as for Mr. C, but a short distance oif ; thirty-six hills made 

 a bushel, where the compost manure was put on, but along 

 side, with super-phosphate of lime, and the usual quantity of 

 about 400 to 500 pounds to the acre, it took seventy-eight hills 

 to make a bushel. Mr. D. makes every thing contribute to the 

 compost heap, within his reach. AVitli never more than three 



