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swamp mud and plaster, putting about ci'i;lit bushels of dove 

 manure and six hundred pounds of plaster, to a large cart-buck 

 full of swamp mud, mix them well together, and put a small 

 handful in the hill at the time we plant the corn. The mud, in 

 all cases, if possible, to remain out in piles through one winter 

 before using, so that the frosts can act upon it. 



AuBURX, October 24, 1853. 



HAMPSHIRE. 



Report of the Committee. 



Every farmer has on his own farm, valuable materials for 

 compost manure. Tlie modes of manufacture, and of applica- 

 tion, are well known. Let the good farmers of old Ilamp.shirG 

 n,wake to the importance of making compost by hundreds af 

 oads, and spreading it broadcast on the lands to which it is 

 best adapted. You will double your crops, and enhance the 

 value of your lands in like proportion. Mr. Rankin's method 

 is worthy of imitation. 



We recommend the turning in of green crops, as a fertilizer 

 of the soil. Mr. Kclita Hubbard, of North Sunderland, has 

 been successful, as appears by his statement of the benefits 

 derived from actual trial, the past two years. As he has 

 abundance of muck in his possession, we hope he will dig it out 

 and apply it to his land, to which it is well adapted, spreading 

 it without measure, and be rewarded accordingly. 



The valuable experiments of Mr. Albert Montague, of Sun- 

 derland, are worthy of attentive consideration. Every farmer 

 would do well to make similar trials, and he will soon know 

 what are his most profitable fertilizers. Mr. Montague's ex- 

 periments show that super-phosphate of lime, whatever may be 

 its intrinsic value and its usefulness on other soils, is not profit- 

 able for farmers whose lands are low, wet, and cold. Provi- 

 dence has given him a muck swamp — he has no occasion for 

 super-phosphate, at five dollars a bag. 



Samuel Powers, Chairman. 



