22 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Experiment No. G, conducted by E. P. Spear, of North 

 Amherst. Heavy, moist, retentive soil. Pastured in 1858. 

 First ploughing, 10 inches deep. Crop was corn manured with 

 1,025 bushels of hog and stable manure, composted with ashes 

 and plaster. The early part of the season was wet, and after 

 the corn was up and hoed once, a great rain deluged it, and it 

 remained under water nearly a week. 



We have not given any of the secondary products, but it may 

 be stated as a rule, that the proportions would not materially 

 vary from those given above. 



Jabez Fisher, 

 John Brooks, 



Committee. 



The committee on the subject of Exhausted Pastures sent 

 out the following circular : — 



Sir, — The Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture desire informa- 

 tion upon the subject of Exhausted Pasture Lands, and propose the 

 following questions to the formers of the State. 



You would confer a favor and assist the cause of Agriculture, if you 

 will take the pains to answer the questions, and to make such experi- 

 ments or inquiries as may enable you to answer them more fully. 



You will be kind enough to return your answers in the enclosed 

 envelope, on or before November loth, directed to Charles L. Flint, 

 Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Boston, Mass., with the name of 

 the subject or subjects upon which you have answered, indorsed thereon. 



1. Arc your pasture lands in any degree exhausted ? 



2. Slate the amount of stock your pastures will carry at the present 

 time. • 



3. State the amount the same pastures were capable of feeding 

 twenty-live or forty years ago. 



