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I keep ; and I restore to my soil, in the shape of something 

 you may call the Stockbridge Fertilizers if you please, what 

 I think I have carried off in the shape of hay ; and, so far, it 

 has worked well. I was so well satisfied with it two years 

 ago, that last year I applied to the whole of my farm half 

 a formula per acre of the Stockbridge top-dressing for grass ; 

 and I am so well satisfied with it, that I think next year I 

 shall apply the whole formula to every acre of my grass-land. 

 I do not want to plough my grass-land up : it is expensive, 

 and there is some risk about it. I am not attempting to 

 grow large crops of grass : it is not my business. I am not 

 engaged in the dairy : if I were, I should plough it up. I am 

 endeavoring to keep it up by top-dressing. I have grass- 

 land that has been laid down fifteen years, and it bears as 

 good crops now as it did twelve years ago. If I can hold on, 

 I shall be entirely satisfied. Two years' experience with the 

 Stockbridge Fertilizers makes me think that I can. I do 

 not say that I can ; but it makes me tJmik that I can. I am 

 so far satisfied of it, that I am going to apply it more exten- 

 sively hereafter. 



I will not talk any more about something that I know 

 nothing about. My specialty is fruit-growing. I have two 

 specialties, — one is pears; the other, grapes. Now, can I 

 afford to use horse-manure at six dollars a cord for growing 

 grapes or pears ? From my experience, I do not believe that 

 I can ; but I do believe that I can apply twenty-five dollars' 

 worth of fertilizers, made according to formulas of my own, 

 to either of those crops, with a great deal of profit. I con- 

 cocted one two years ago, and applied it with very good 

 results; and last year I repeated it, with slight variations, 

 and found still better results ; and I am going to do it again. 

 I do not know that I can answer the question any more 

 intelligently than I have done. 



Adjourned to two o'clock, p.m. 



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