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upon the side of the hill, where it would be covered by the hoe, 

 and be mixed with the earth. The effect of that was so marked 

 that you could see it before you got to the land, and the crop 

 was better. All our corn was somewhat cut off by the drought 

 this year, but those two rows were preferable to any of the 

 others. I applied the flour of bone to two rows at the first 

 hoeing, and the guano also to two rows. The effect of the 

 application of the guano at the hoeing was not so great as at the 

 planting ; the flour of bone made no perceptible difference at 

 all, at any time. I never have seen any particular advantage 

 from it. Whether or not it will come in the next crop, I cannot 

 say. 



I wish to state in regard to a crop of mangolds that I raised, 

 and my opinion of their value, from a test that I made last 

 year. I will say, that all these tests and experiments that we 

 make are not so accurate as they would be if we went to work 

 and weighed exactly, pound for pound, what we fed out to 

 stock, and the result in the product of milk ; but last winter I 

 fed carrots to three cows for two weeks, at the rate of a peck 

 apiece a day, with fine feed, a. quart to the peck, and then I kept 

 the run of the quantity of milk. Then I tried the long red 

 mangolds for two weeks, with the same amount of fine feed, 

 and kept the run of the milk. As near as I could judge, in this 

 rough way of testing, the result was about twenty per cent, in 

 favor of the carrots. The amount of hay was not weighed to 

 the cattle at the time, but I thought, from as close observation 

 as I could make by looking over the stack every day, it seemed 

 to me to be decidedly in favor of the carrots. 



In raising carrots this year upon the same quality of land, 

 that had been manured for two years, I ploughed in coarse 

 manure right from the barn-yard, about six inches dee]), upon 

 land that was fully permeated with twitch-grass, or dog-grass, as. 

 we call it ; I think Mr. Flint's book gives it as Triticum rcpens. 

 I had that ploughed in, and then, before planting, I had twenty 

 loads more to the acre applied, that had lain a year, to be culti- 

 vated in before planting the roots ; for my experience is, that 

 unless the manure that you apply to plant roots upon is well 

 decomposed, they will straggle, instead of going down straight 

 and smooth, will run to tops, and the roots will not be so long 

 as they would be if planted upon well rotted manure. I found 



