FERTILIZERS. 



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maximum crops of hay, vegetables or fruit, such land, thoroughly 

 underdraiued, is a safe investment, and with my own specialty, 

 the cost has not exceeded the compensation. 



FERTILIZERS. 



FRANKLIN. 



Statement of Levi P. Warner, Sunderland. 

 The object of the experiment was twofold : first, to test the 

 comparative value of different kinds of fertilizers, and second, 

 to determine whether a liberal application of commercial ferti- 

 lizers could be profitably made on land that had been sufficiently 

 enriched with farm-yard manure, to produce good crops. The 

 piece of ground upon which the experiment was tried had been 

 previously manured and sowed to onions. The commercial 

 value of the several kinds of fertilizers used was at the rate of 

 $60 per acre, one-half being strewn between the rows May 4, 

 and the remainder, July 20. The yield of onions on each of the 

 plots of ground was as follows : — 



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Where no commercial fertilizers were applied, 

 "Where Peruvian guano was applied, 

 Where Chicago bone was applied, 

 Where Bradley's X.L. phosphate was applied, 

 Where Bradley's sea-fowl guano was applied, 



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The onions were sold for 65 cents per bushel. 



Statement of D. O. Fisk, Shelburne. 

 I prepared two acres of common tillage land (worth 850 per 

 acre) for a crop of corn, by spreading on 20 loads of manure 



