80 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Crop, stalks and husks, . . . . . $33 00 



Manure unspoilt, . . . . . . 25 00 



81f bushels of corn, at $1.04, .... 805 



S14G 05 

 92 80 



Profit, $53 25 



The frost on the night of August 31 injured some late planted 

 corn in this neighborhood, to the estimated extent of nearly one- 

 half. My own, I think, was injured from the same cause at least 

 ten per cent. 



You will see by my statement, that I have used some guano. 

 To test its value, four rows were planted without guano. These 

 were harvested separately, and compared with four rows adjoin- 

 ing. The result was at the rate of ten bushels to the acre in 

 favor of guano, the corn being also sounder. In another exper- 

 iment on swardland, where a table-spoonful of guano was put 

 in each hill without any other manure, the result was nearly 

 a total failure, yielding only at the rate of ten bushels to the 

 acre, of sound corn, while the corn adjoining, planted with a 

 shovelful of compost manure in the hill, yielded at the rate of 

 thirty-eight ))ushels. The corn treated with guano, although 

 planted first, was behind the other through the season, and of 

 course was more injured by the frost. 



I have used guano with potatoes, Avhen a table-spoonful was 

 put in the hill ; the result, as compared with a shovelful of 

 manure in the hill, was as six bushels with guano to seven with 

 manure, the potatoes being of equal quality. Soil, a light, 

 gravelly loam. I have also tried an experiment on grass land, 

 one hundred and fifty pounds being sown on half an acre of 

 low, moist land. The guano was sown at the commencement 

 of a heavy »ain, about the 20th of April. In this case, the 

 result was highly satisfactory ; the crop being double of last 

 year, while all around it was lighter. In another experiment 

 on grass, made about three weeks later, on higher land, and in 

 fair weather, no perceptible difference was noticed. Squashes, 

 turnips, beans and pease, were raised successfully with guano. 



