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should get the fine bone, and dissolve it myself; then I 

 should know that I had dissolved bone. If I bought it of a 

 dealer in fertilizers, I might suppose that I got it, but I 

 should not be sure. 



Mr. Merrill (of Pittsfield). I would like to have Mr. 

 Moore tell us the kind of manure he applies, and how he 

 applies it. 



Capt. Moore. It is manure that comes out of my barn- 

 cellar. I keep a good many pigs on it. It is manure from 

 the cattle ; it is coarse manure from the stable run into that 

 cellar through scuttle-holes in the floor, and worked over by 

 the pigs; it is the waste of the farm, every thing of that 

 kind I can get. Perhaps I ought to say, further than that, 

 that my land is not all turned over simply for raising grass : 

 perhaps there is a rotation with some other crop. Usually I 

 raise two acres of cauliflower. I cannot grow cauliflower 

 without manuring the land heavily. No man can grow 

 cauliflower without an abundance of manure. In growing 

 cauliflower, it is absolutely necessary to use a great deal of 

 phosphates in the form of bone, and with that I use potash 

 in the form of muriate of potash or sulphate of potash. On 

 that piece of land after it has had cauliflower on it, I should 

 not plant any other crop, like corn, because hardly any crop, 

 except grass, grows well after any of the cabbage tribe : 

 you may be sure of that. I have found that out by experi- 

 ence. My experience has cost me a good deal of money 

 when I have tried to grow something else besides grass on 

 land where I have grown cauliflower before it has had a 

 rest. Most of my grassland has a rotation ; and it has a rota- 

 tion after a crop which has been very highly manured, and 

 has not, perhaps, exhausted the elements which the grass 

 wants. 



Mr. Taet (of Upton). Will you tell us how you put on 

 your manure, and how you manage your land that you turn 

 over in August, after you take off the crop? 



Capt. Moore. I do not like to seed it until the middle of 

 August. Anywhere from the middle of August to the first 

 of October is safe for us. It is not very safe for a person 

 who does not manure well to seed much after the first week 

 in September. I plough the land, and put on a wheel har- 

 row, — a Randall harrow. My land, I may as well state 



