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have reserved the results for further consideration, with a view to a 

 repetition of the same experiments, before the publication thereof.] 



Potatoes planted on Fay Farm, 



May 29, and manured with four hundred pounds guano per acre. 

 Amount of land, one acre. Product, 137 bushels. 



One-sixteenth acre, planted Avith seedlings from Rev. C. E. 

 Goodrich. Manured with guano, twenty-five pounds. Product, 8 

 bushels; or, 128 bushels to the acre. 



Peach Blow Potatoes ^^lanted on the Plain. 



Three acres, manured with four hundred pounds of guano per acre. 

 Planted June 5. Product, 404 bushels, or, 134| bushels to the acre, 

 quality good. 



One and one-fourth acre, below farm house. Planted June 8. 

 Manured with four hundred pounds guano per acre. Product, 119 

 bushels, small and not very good ; or, 95^ bushels to the acre. 



The latter piece was planted in 1854 with the same kind of pota- 

 toes, manured with guano in the same proportion, and produced 189^ 

 bushels of very nice potatoes. Whole amount of potatoes raised this 

 year, 1,647 bushels. 



IKDIAK COKN. 

 On the Plain. 



Planted May 21 and 22, and manured in the hill as follows: — 

 On the east side, six acres. \st acre — twelve dollars worth of barn 

 manure. Product, 99 bushels of ears — 88 sound, and 11 soft corn. 

 Weight of stover, 3,065 poimds. Id acre — four hundred pounds 

 guano, cost, twelve dollars. Product, 59 bushels of ears — 38 sound, 

 and 21 soft. Weight of stover, 1,900 pounds. 3cZ acre — one hundred 

 and fifty pounds potash, composted with coal ashes, cost, twelve dollars. 

 Product, 70 bushels of ears — 58 sound, 12 soft. Weight of stover, 

 2,300. Atli acre — four hundred pounds Mapes' super-phosphate. 

 Product, 86 bushels of ears — 74 sound, 12 soft. Weight of stover, 2,360 

 pounds, cost, twelve dollars. 5th acre — four hundred pounds De 

 Burgs' do., 72 J- bushels of ears — 59 sound, 13 J- soft. Weight of 

 stover, 2,280 pounds. 6//j acre — ten barrels Gould's muriate of lime, 

 cost, twelve dollars. Product, 65^- bushels of ears — 48^ sound, 17 

 soft. Weight of stover, 2,320 pounds. 



The corn on the five last mentioned acres did not come up well, 

 and was planted over, some of it, three times. This, with the severe 

 drought and early frost, will account for the small crop, and the large 

 proportion of soft corn. All were manured at the same expense. 



On the west side of the plain, five acres, manured with eight and one- 



