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is an indispensable science to the farmer. Instead of appro- 

 priating forty thousand dollars for a survey of five miles for 

 a sewer which will be abandoned after five or six millions, 

 perhaps, have been spent upon it, they should have offered 

 that money in premiums to chemists. You all know how 

 expensive chemical experiments are. Our scientific profess- 

 ors are poor men ; the colleges are poor ; they have no 

 means for providing the material to carry on very expensive 

 experiments : and, when forty thousand dollars are to be ap- 

 propriated in a matter of this vast importance, here is a 

 direction in which the money can be put to a good use. The 

 science of chemistry is entitled to take charge of this ques- 

 tion, because it belongs to that science. The city of Boston 

 spends an immense amount of money to procure an amount 

 of water sufficient to carry off these solids. What is the 

 true course? Save the solids separately. The simplest 

 thing in the world. Almighty God has so organized every 

 animal, that the solids can be separated from the fluids where 

 it is necessary. It is not necessary in the barn-yard. Gen- 

 tlemen, I feel assured, by the intelligent faces I see here, that 

 the farmers of Massachusetts will be true to themselves and 

 their interests, and to the agriculture of Massachusetts and 

 New England. 



JNIr. Haelow of Shrewsbury. I would not say a word 

 at this time, had it not been that some remarks have been 

 made here which I feel are calculated to mislead some of 

 this audience in regard to fertilizers. I regard this subject 

 as one of immense importance to the farmers of Massachu- 

 setts. I have been looking around for years since I com- 

 menced farming, hoping to strike upon some fertilizer that 

 would extend my stock of manure, so that I could accom- 

 plish more upon my farm. This, I believe, is the experience 

 of all farmers in Massachusetts. I have felt, that, whenever 

 a man invented any thing that could grow crops, that man 

 was worthy of the gratitude and thanks of mankind. Now 

 when I learned of the Stockbridge Fertilizers, — having been 

 cheated in trying fertilizers before, or, at least, having found 

 they did not work to my satisfaction, did not give me an 

 equivalent for my money, — I thought I would give the Stock- 

 bridge Fertilizers a fair trial. Two years since, I purchased a 

 small quantity of one of the fertilizers, and tried it to my 



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