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ni}'- neighbor's corn, I finally concluded I would not apply any 

 fertilizer at all, and did not. I had an enormous growth of 

 stalks; and I harvested a hundred and eighty-two honest 

 bushel-baskets full of ears. I could not help thinking if I 

 had only applied the Stockbridge Fertilizer, or some other 

 fertilizer, to that field, what an excellent testimonial I could 

 have furnished for another year, and I was almost sorry I 

 had not done it. But, nevertheless, I do honestly believe 

 that we are on the right track in regard to fertilizers ; still 

 I have not had such results from them as I think I am 

 entitled to. I used the formula for corn year before last ; 

 but the season was so dry, of course I could not tell any 

 thing about it. This year I used another formula on the 

 same piece, and of course I got more corn, because the 

 season was a better season ; but still I did not get any thing 

 like what was predicted by Mr. Bowker. Perhaps, however, 

 the fault was mine. 



I would like to have this matter settled in regard to night- 

 soil, because I am very much interested. 



Mr. Murray. Will the gentleman please state whether 

 the night-soil had any ferment ? 



Mr. SLiVDE. Not a particle. This is an important matter 

 to me, because I am carting my manure from Fall River, a 

 distance of five miles ; and am paying five dollars a cord for 

 it. If I can have manure given to me, within two hundred 

 rods of my farm, that is worth any thing, I want to know 

 it. 



Mr. Capen of Boston. The farmers of INIassachusetts are 

 practical men. They are not men to have wool pulled over 

 their eyes. They are men who know that dung is dung the 

 world over, as long as it holds its qualities. I will bet every 

 time that the Stockbridge Fertilizers are reliable. There will 

 be exceptional cases ; there will be mistakes made ; there 

 will be conditions of soil, &c., which will be unfavorable. 

 But do not allow yourselves to be hoodwinked and bam- 

 boozled by anybody in the interests of the city of Boston, 

 which does not want to be disturbed in its disposition of 

 the sewage before it is absolutely necessary. They hope 

 to get through this generation without having that subject 

 disturbed much; but the method which they have adopted 

 there now will prove an ignominious failure. I was very 



