66 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



ing of this Board last year produced two heavy crops this 

 year. The grass lodged on the ground. I seed a good deal 

 of land late. This fall I have seeded eight or ten acres. I 

 presume I have not more than twenty or twenty-five acres 

 that is in English mowing. I have a few acres of good 

 meadow besides. I keep four horses the year round to do 

 the farm-work. In my barn there are thirty head of cattle 

 that will be wintered there. I sold fifty tons of hay last 

 year. A portion of those cattle are kept on this meadow- 

 hay. I keep them on that Hay because I want to work it 

 up. I don't undertake to make milk with that. I keep 

 some milch cows for my neighbors, and run them through 

 the winter on that swale hay, and they come out in good 

 order ; and they pay me seventy-five cents or a dollar a week 

 for keeping them, and that is better than making milk, and 

 getting nothing for it. 



Mr. . I want to ask what the nature of your soil is, 



and how much manure you apply to get two crops for five 

 years. 



Capt. Moore. I can't tell the number of loads, but very 

 likely fifty loads to the acre of such manure as I have. It 

 would not be good economy to sell off the hay, unless I had 

 some means of obtaining manure. I buy the manure from 

 a stable of forty horses. Mind you, I am doing some con- 

 siderable market-gardening, and I use large quantities of 

 fertilizers besides. If I was going to put any top-dressing 

 on my land, it would be fertilizers. My soil is some of it 

 underlaid with peat ; and the other part of it, where we grow 

 grass, would be called black loam. I have but little clay 

 soil on my place. 



I said I thought I should use fertilizers if I top-dressed 

 my land. The natural question for you to ask me is, " What 

 would you use ? Would you buy Stockbridge Fertilizer, 

 would you buy bone-meal, or would you buy superphos- 

 phates?" I should tell you at once that I should not do 

 any thing of the kind. I should do just precisely as Mr. 

 Slade has intimated in his paper. I should post myself up 

 in those matters : I should use my brains about that, and 

 that is what I have done. I should use the material that 

 would give me the most of what I wanted to put on that 

 land at the lowest price. If I wanted dissolved bone, I 



