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was not made in such a manner as to determine how much more 

 was produced with it, than could have been without it. 



Mr. Y. gave a full statement of his farming operations, and I 

 only regret that I cannot enrich this report by inserting it in 

 full. When the rent of any farm has been raised from $145 to 

 $350 in seven years, and is made to pay the tenant well besides, 

 then the farming public want to know how it was done. The 

 dung heap, however, will be found to tell the whole story, and 

 that, with neither phosphates, muriate nor guano. And with all 

 the intelligence and well directed skill of Mr. Y., he probably 

 pays but little attention to the matter of oxygen, hydrogen, 

 nitrogen, carbon, phosphorus, potash, or soda. Mr. Y. has 

 been operating nearly seven years to great advantage upon a 

 hired farm, with forty-eight acres of tillage, and fifty of salt 

 marsh. Although much of his manure comes from the farm 

 beach, yet he has purchased ever year sometimes from twenty to 

 fifty loads of night-soil. He has used as much as 500 ox-cart- 

 fuls of well mixed compost manure in a year. The whole suc- 

 cess of Mr. Y.'s farming, he himself refers to heavy manuring 

 and deep ploughing. He does not call it ploughing, if less than 

 ten inches deep, and his rule is oftener twelve. This statement 

 is of course destitute of the interest it would have had, had care- 

 ful experiments been made with different kinds of manure, 

 even where none of the concentrated fertilizers have been em- 

 ployed. 



Mr. Z. informs me by letter that he has made diligent inquiry 

 in his vicinity, quite remote from this, for experiments in 

 manures. One gentleman has tried both guano and super-phos- 

 phate of lime, and is well satisfied with both ; but the letters of 

 the alphabet having entirely failed me, my report must expire 

 for want of breath. 



I cannot sufficiently express my thanks to the five and twenty 

 or thirty gentlemen who have listened to, and answered my 

 inquiries, generally on the spot, and waiting patiently while the 

 whole could be written down, or, as before mentioned, in many 

 cases by letter. 



Should any who have contributed to this report find errors, 

 as they probably will, let them do me the justice to believe they 

 are errors of infirmity, and not of intention ; and for those 

 gentlemen who have borne the expenses of travel incident to 



