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Five tons a year, sixteen years ago, at $100. 



Forty-five tons now sold at same price, (120,) |900 00 



Cost of 45 cords of manure at the stable, at 



at $2.50, 1112 50 



As the team on its way liome from market 



can take a load back about as well as 



not, reckon $2, per cord for labor and 



teaming, . . . . . . 90 00 



Total for manure and labor, . $202 50 



This deducted from the value of hay sold, 



leaves $697 50 



and gives them a profit of $597.50 above the original product 

 of the farm sixteen years ago. 



The manure, on being brought home, is usually laid in a wet 

 hollow, and requires no forking over. In addition to the Eng- 

 lish hay, they raise from 200 to 300 bushels of corn. 



Mr. S. has experimented for two years. In November, 1854, 

 he spread four cords of green manure to the acre from his Ijarn 

 cellar and ploughed it under. It was harrowed in May, 1855, 

 and corn planted with compost manure in the hill, except upon 

 sixteen rows in the middle of the field, of forty hills each. 

 Eight of these sixteen rows were manured with guano at the 

 rate of 300 pounds per acre. The other eight rows were 

 planted with DeBurg's super-phosphate of lime, (No. 1,) a single 

 handful in each hill. " The result," says he, " was a splendid 

 crop of stalks, the corn ripening late." The remainder of the 

 piece yielded fifty bushels to the acre. This was in 1855. 



The present year Mr. S. planted his orchard. In May he 

 turned in a crop of clover and planted corn with compost 

 manure in the hill, except nine rows of eighty-four hills each, 

 and running north and south. These nine rows were manured 

 with seventy-five pounds of guano and an equal bulk of plas- 

 ter well mixed — a handful being put in each hill — the whole 

 field being treated alike in its after culture. The result was as 

 follows : — 



Weight of sound corn on the nine rows planted 



with guano and plaster, .... 797 lbs. 



