46 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Mr. Rawso^st. In the first place, I have but one business. 

 In the second place, I always get up in the morning, and 

 attend to my business. That is one way I have made it 

 pay. 



Mr. Smith. And you put some brains into the work 

 too? 



Mr. Rawson. I put in what little I have. I have been 

 brought up in the business : and, if I cannot make it pay, it 

 is my own fault ; because I haven't brains enough, I sup- 

 pose. I have not a great deal of land, — only twenty-five 

 acres. An account of my farm was published in " The 

 Massachusetts Ploughman," and I suppose some of you have 

 read it. I can say that every word in " The Ploughman " 

 is correct, and more too. 



Mr. JOKN" FiLLEBEOWN- of Arlington. I have used fer- 

 tilizers to some extent. I have used the Bradley Fertilizer 

 more than any other. Year before last I ploughed about 

 three-quarters of an acre that had been lying four years 

 without any manure, badly run out, neither grassed over nor 

 weeded over. I ploughed it about the first of August, 

 rolled it, harrowed it pretty thoroughly, and put on two 

 barrels of Bradley's Fertilizer, — less than four hundred and 

 fifty pounds, — and sowed it with white turnips ; and I 

 would not ask a better crop than I got from that piece of 

 land. At another time I raised an acre of white turnips on 

 a very small quantity of guano, and it was the best crop of 

 turnips that I ever saw grown : I won't except any crop. 

 I don't know just how much guano I put on ; but it was a 

 very small amount. I would like to hear some gentleman 

 say something about fertilizers. I used this year more than 

 a ton of the Brighton Fertilizer upon celery, and I think it 

 paid me very well for using it. I have used it on cabbages ; 

 I have used it on cauliflowers ; and I think it paid me well. 



Mr. Atwill. Mr. Fillebrown speaks of raising large 

 crops of turnips with fertilizers. I claim that his land is so 

 filled with manure, that, if he did not put on any manure at 

 all, he would get a splendid crop of flat turnips. It is my 

 opinion, that a man living twenty miles from Boston, who 

 should go to raising general crops without manure would 

 soon have to move from his farm. If a man has any money 

 to invest in manures, I think he had better invest it in stable- 



