MANURES. 147 



Amasa Howard's Statemont. 



Being interested in the trial for the greatest quantity of ma- 

 nure, I send the following statement of the manner in which 

 mine was made : — 



The offal from my slaughter-house, and the manure of four 

 horses is dropped into a cellar below, where are kept four 

 hogs. From this cellar I have taken 114 loads of green 

 manure; 51 loads were made from my barn, where were kept 

 one yoke of oxen, four cows, and a yearling. From my hog 

 and barnyard, the former having had the wash of the house, 

 286 loads, composted with soil and muck, were taken; 88 

 loads from the various other out-buildings were scraped to- 

 gether, adding material as required. By this calculation, I find 

 I have made 539 loads, of 40 cubic feet each, during the past 

 year. 



Horace Collamores Statement. 



Having entered as a competitor for the premium offered by 

 the Plymouth County Agricultural Society, "to the person 

 who shall make the greatest quantity of the most valuable 

 compost manure," I will state that my stock, the last year, has 

 averaged about eight head of neat cattle, two horses, and three 

 swine ; that I have a barn cellar, one-third of which is appropri- 

 ated for a hogsty, and for the repository of the droppings of 

 the cattle and horses, when housed; and into which is almost 

 daily thrown swamp mud and soil, chip-dirt, &c., to be mixed 

 by tlie swine. 



A large proportion of my farm being sandy, we cart about 

 200 loads of swamp mud into the barnyard and hog-pen, in the 

 fall ; this receives the droppings of the cattle and swine during 

 the winter, and, as soon as the frost will permit in the spring, 

 is frequently ploughed and harrowed, and in June is heaped up 

 in large winrows, with the scraper, and left to ferment, till 

 wanted for top-dressing for grass lands or other purposes. 



For our low meadow lands we make a compost soil, obtained 

 from the hedgerows around the fields, intended for our corn 



