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and " the smallest amount of corn unfit to grind," says Mr, E., 

 " that I ever saw from the same amount." Mr. E. thinks he 

 shall try the super-phosphate again, but not the guano. The 

 184 bushels of ears will make forty-six, of shelled corn. 



Mr. E. further experimented to some extent upon his bean 

 crop, with guano and plaster. The yield, however, was small ; 

 four bushels to an acre only, partly, he thinks, owing to drought. 

 A neighl)or of Mr. E. last year used plaster alone upon beans, 

 and ho had five bushels from two quarts of seed, and sold them 

 in August for five dollars per bushel. 



Mr. F. first manured his whole field alike and ploughed in. 

 On fifty rows, having about 800 hills, he put half a teacupful of 

 DeBurg's super-phosphate of lime to eacli hill. Upon all the 

 remainder of his field he applied a good shovelful of barnyard 

 manure to the hill. " The part manured with the super-phos- 

 phate," says Mr. F., "is fully equal to the rest. The whole 

 field contained from three and a half to four acres." 



On the 17th of April last, Mr. C applied 800 pounds of guano 

 in a finely powdered state, one bushel of plaster and one bushel 

 of salt, to 150 square rods of land, and sowed one and a half 

 bushels of spring rye. It was a light, sandy soil, heretofoi^e 

 used as a pasture, not yielding, however, he thinks, more than 

 four or five hundred weight of hay to the acre. Unfortunately, 

 on the 81st of July, a large part of the field was beat down by a 

 heavy shower, from Avhich some of it never recovered. On the 

 the 24th of July, however, the crop was harvested, and the yield 

 was fifteen bushels, — being at the rate of sixteen bushels to the 

 acre. Spring wheat was tried upon forty square rods, adjoining 

 the rye, manured with guano, at the same rate, (300 pounds to 

 the acre,) and the yield was at the rate of thirteen and one-fifth 

 bushels to an acre, the crop being three bushels and thirteen 

 quarts. On the remainder of the field, dressed with guano as 

 before, he sowed on the same day fifty-three rods with oats. 

 This crop grew finely, and at harvest stood three feet high on a 

 level, and produced ten bushels and twenty qviarts, or thirty-two 

 bushels to the acre. Mr. G. thinks that planting corn and 

 potatoes with guano, plaster and salt, as above, put in the hill, 

 will always be likely to fail ; they should be well pulverized, 

 then spread and harz'owed in. 



The experiments of Mr. H. were made with ashes and guano- 



