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one-half feet the other way, and stirred in with the soil on one- 

 half the piece ; nothing in the hills on the rest of the piece ; 

 the whole was then planted with potatoes on the 8th of May. 

 I conld see no benefit at all from the bone in the growing crop, 

 and the yield of potatoes was no more where the meal was used 

 than where it was not. Yield about 180 bushels per acre. 



Second piece. The land was similar and adjoining the first ; 

 no manure spread ; the bone meal put in the hills in nearly the 

 same quantity ; the hills about three and one-half feet apart 

 each way. Planted it with corn on the 10th of May ; it came 

 up well but failed to grow, except one strip about a rod wide, 

 on which dry wood ashes were spread the spring before. This 

 strip produced pretty fair corn. 



Third. Ploughed the ground, on which the grass was mostly 

 killed out, July 25th ; harrowed and furrowed, and put compost 

 in all the rows except one — in that put pond muck, mixed with 

 half a bushel of bone meal. The rows were nearly eight rods 

 long. Planted it with round turnips. The produce of the row 

 where the bone meal was put was about the same as the others. 

 I cannot see as yet that I have received the least benefit from 

 the bone meal thus applied. 



HEDGES. 



MIDDLESEX SOUTH. 



Statement of Seth Davis, Esq. 



The hedge which I offer for inspection was commenced in 

 1860 or '61, in the following manner : — 



I cut into lengths of about three feet a species of willow 

 known in common parlance as gray willow, being upon an 

 average about three inches in diameter. I set or rather stuck 

 out the same upon a division line about 215 feet in length, on a 

 piece of reclaimed bog-land, principally by drainage, being 

 about four feet deep to hard bottom. The method taken was 

 first with an iron bar to just make an entrance through the 

 surface, and with a beetle drive down the cuttings about sixteen 



