FARMS. 121 



But only half that amount was used, worth, . $12 00 



And 146 pounds guano, and transportation of same, 5 25 



117 25 

 Advantage of the guano over the manure this year, 6 75 



But the same difficulty as before meets us, viz. : determining 

 the comparative length of time the two kinds of manure will be 

 felt on future crops. As the compost will probably out-last the 

 guano, the apparent balance in favor of guano will be dimin- 

 ished, leaving, however, the labor bill to go against it. 



Mr. N. put guano, at the rate of 400 pounds to the acre, upon 

 a strip of grass land one rod wide. The difference could be 

 seen, says Mr. N., fifty rods off: the grass stood from four to six 

 inches taller than that alongside. 



Mr. 0. spread 400 pounds of guano upon one acre of corn 

 land alongside of this, and twenty ox-cart loads of compost ma- 

 nure were spread to the acre ; but the result was not stated. 



In describing the farm of Mr, B., (see ante,~) I omitted his 

 experiments with manures for the purpose of inserting his state- 

 ments in this part of the report. 



Mr. B. deals with manures in no stinted way, and his crops 

 are, accordingly, without stint. He has applied, not less, he 

 thinks, than 200 cords the present year — 1856. One hundred 

 dollars worth of stable manure he purchased, and drew it, say 

 five miles. Forty cords of muscle-bed mud were drawn off upon 

 the ice, and about 400 loads of kelp and rock-weed from his 

 beach, make up his amount of sea manure. About 100 ox-cart 

 loads of meadow mud, and thirty to fifty loads from the vaults, 

 both to be had for the taking away, make up the mass applied 

 to his farm. The night soil and meadow mud are mixed in the 

 proportion of one load of the former to three of the latter. 



Kelp, stable manure, and barnyard manure, make the com- 

 post for the onion crop, being applied at the rate of five to six 

 cords per acre. Stable manure costs five dollars per cord. 

 Wherever Mr. B. has used guano upon his grass land, as a top- 

 dressing, he thinks every 200 pounds has given him an extra 

 ton of hay. Early in June last, a piece of grass put on a rusty 

 appearance and seemed dying. About the middle of June he 

 sowed 200 pounds of guano to the acre upon it. The weather 



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