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great many farmers in Eastern Massachusetts. People applied 

 for the formulas, and received them. Whether they obtained 

 the materials, and used them, I know not, except in one 

 instance. I see Dr. Sturtevant, of Framingham, here ; he 

 received the formula ; and although I have not said anything 

 to him about it, nor he to me, I am told that he used the 

 formula, and got a crop of corn. After I have done, 3^ou may 

 have the pleasure of hearing the result of his experiments. I 

 do not know but others in Eastern Massachusetts have done 

 the same thinof. 



Now, that this thing might be settled, and without my 

 knowing where the}^ got the material, or how they used it, or 

 anything about it, I furnished the formula, and I have written 

 to a few farmers in different sections of the country whom I 

 knew or had heard were trying the material, and I will give 

 you the result. I give it to you, of course, just exactly in 

 farm fashion. I know nothing of where they obtained the 

 material, or anything about it, only they wrote me the 

 results. 



Charles F. Fowler, of Westfield, says : — 



" We sent and got the material, and put it on to a ' pine plain 

 land,' for five acres of corn, and thought the land would naturally 

 grow about ten bushels to the acre." 



He applied the material, — so many pounds, about enough, 

 he says, for fifty bushels to the acre, — and harvested on the 

 five acres forty-five bushels to the acre of shelled corn. 



Mr. Henry N. Phelps, of Southampton, says : — 



"I made an application, on three acres of land, of what I sup- 

 posed, according to your formula, would produce forty bushels of 

 corn. It 3-ielded fiftj'-two bushels to the acre of shelled corn on the 

 three acres. I applied on an acre of land in grass, which had not 

 been ploughed for twenty j'ears, or manured for three years, enough 

 of that material to produce two tons of hay to the acre. It did pro- 

 duce me, b^' weight, three and a half tons." 



Hon. Hinsdale Smith, of Feeding Hills, West Springfield, 

 says : — 



" I sent to New York and got the materials, as you told me, and 

 applied them to twentj' acres of land for corn. The land — one-half 

 of it — was good corn-land ; the other half was solid clay, very much 



