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satisfaction. One other gentleman in my town also tried it, 

 and it was satisfactory to him. During the winter I pro- 

 cured the services of Professor Stockbridge to come to 

 Shrewsbury, and address the people upon the subject ; and as 

 the result of his explanation of the fertilizers, and the efforts 

 that were made, there was a large quantity sold in our town 

 during the past year, — more than five thousand dollars' 

 worth certainly. I purchased myself what I paid a hun- 

 dred and ten or a hundred and twelve dollars for. I ap- 

 plied it to corn and to Hungarian grass ; and the result was 

 more than satisfactory. I have heard a large number of the 

 gentlemen who used the fertilizer in our town speak of it ; 

 and only two instances have I known where they have not 

 been highly pleased with it. One of the two individuals to 

 whom I refer applied it to a piece of ground that he raised 

 a large quantity of turnips upon last year. He planted 

 corn, and applied the fertilizer for corn, and it was a failure ; 

 but he said he did not attribute it to the fertilizer. Another 

 gentleman condemned the fertilizer. He had used it on half 

 an acre ; and on the other half-acre beside it he used barn- 

 yard manure, and his corn was not worth harvesting. But 

 he told me himself (which shows that the result was not 

 owing to the fertilizer) that the best corn of the two was 

 that raised on the half-acre where he applied the fertilizer. 

 Three years ago I raised corn upon two acres and a quarter. 

 I spread about twenty cart-loads of green manure to the 

 acre, and I raised a good crop of corn. Last year I sowed 

 that piece with barley, and seeded it down to grass. My 

 grass was a failure. And this spring I ploughed the piece up 

 again, and applied sixty-seven dollars' worth of the Stock- 

 bridge Fertilizer, and planted it with corn, and I think it was 

 the best piece of corn ever raised in the town of Shrews- 

 bury. It was a general topic of conversation with peojDle 

 who passed that way, knowing that the Stockbridge Fertilizer 

 had been applied to it. I have been told by fifty individuals, 

 I presume, that it was the best piece of corn they had seen 

 this year. One old gentleman, who lives opposite me, who has 

 been a farmer all his life (and he is now seventy years old), 

 helped husk about three loads that I put into his barn, and 

 he said it was the handsomest and best corn that he ever 

 husked. I do ^ot say that it was the largest and best yield of 



