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Icnow whether the fertilizer was good for any thing or not, 

 and I think it was a very good test. It was all planted alike, 

 and every thing done at the same time, except applying the 

 fertilizer, so that I think that paid me. 



Mr. McGregor. I want to ask the gentleman a question. 

 He states that the corn-crop will take half the amount of 

 manure. Now, if corn will take half, what proportion will 

 the grass-crop take ? 



Mr. Ellsworth. I think it will take very much less. 



Mr. McGregor. How much less if you please, sir ? 



Mr. Ellsworth. I calculate that the rotting sod, and 

 the barnyard-manure applied, will carry the land along eight 

 years, and give good crops. I cannot tell what the fertilizer 

 will do. I do not know how much of that formula is spent ; 

 but I had an idea that all of it was not used up in that crop. 

 I intend to follow it up in that same way, and not apply 

 any thing to the quarter of an acre, and see what the result 

 will be. 



Mr. McGregor. I did not mean this formula, but the 



horse-manure. 



Mr. Whittaker. That is a question that no gentleman 

 can answer, or ever will answer. 



Mr. Ellsworth. I think that is the same question I 

 did answer. I think that that rotted sod, in connection 

 with the unspent manure, — with this green manure, as you 

 may. call it, — will give me a good grass-crop, at the rate of 

 from a ton and a half to two tons an acre, upon my land for 

 eight years. I think that is my experience, and I have been 

 on the farm twenty years. 



Mr. McGregor. That will make one-eighth of the 

 strength each year? 



Mr. Ellsworth. I think it will. 



Mr. Paul of Dighton. Will it not take any thing from 

 the sod ? 



Mr. Ellsworth. I have no doubt that it will take some- 

 thing froin the sod. 



Mr. Paul. Then it did not store up any thing like half? 



Mr. Ellsworth. I don't think it did. But the manure 

 not being composted, being green manure, I am satisfied it 

 did not spend more than one-half on my land at that time. 



Question. What kind of seed did you use ? 



