MANURES. 69 



400 lbs, guano per acre, .... $36 00 



Drawing and spreading muck, . . . 6 00 



Interest on land, at $25 per acre, . . 4 50 



$62 00 



Product, 306 bushels ears, equal to 153 bushels 



shelled corn, at $1, . . . . . 153 00 



Profit, $91 00 



The fodder and soft corn will pay the expense of harvesting. 



HAMPSHIEE. 



Statement of Albert Montague. 



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No. 1. I purchased, last spring, super-phosphate, poudrette 

 and guano, for the purpose of testing their comparative value 

 with each other and with barnyard manure. 



Upon one acre of my best land I spread eight loads of well 

 rotted manure, and harrowed in ; then planted to broomcorn, 

 using $1.44 worth of poudrette in the hill, upon one half of it, 

 and $2.41 worth of super-phosphate upon the other half, tlrop- 

 ping both poudrette and super-phosphate at the time of planting, 

 using Woodward's planter. At the first and second hoeings, 

 the corn where I used the super-phosphate was the most prom- 

 ising, and at harvesting, I should judge, would yield from fifty 

 to one hundred pounds more broom-brush. 



No. 2. Upon a piece of greensward, soil rather cold and 

 heavy, I spread fifteen loads of compost to the acre ; then planted 

 to Indian corn, using super-phosphate upon one half, and good 

 wood ashes upon the other half, putting quantities of equal 

 value upon each. The corn upon the super-phosphate part came 

 up first, grew the fastest, ripened ten days earlier, and will yield 

 ten bushels of corn more than the ashed part. Nearly the same 

 result I found by experimenting with super-phosphate and ashes 

 upon a piece of light, sandy soil. I think the relative difierence 

 was about the same, although the piece of corn was much light- 

 er. 



No. 3 was with guano and barnyard manure. I measured 

 one and a half acres of good meadow land that had been well 

 manured and well cultivated for a long time. Upon one half 

 of it, I spread and ploughed in eight loads of good yard ma- 



