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land, a crop on which I could figure out a very handsome 

 profit. While I believe with our friend Webb in making our 

 soil better constantly, if we can, in making a crop like the 

 corn crop, save the most expensive element which we have to 

 buy, that is, the nitrogen, and get a satisfactory crop at a 

 profit, I believe it to be policy to do so ; and, as has been re- 

 marked here before, I regard Prof. Atwater's experiments 

 in that line as having done us farmers a great deal of 

 good. 



Mr, Inglis, of Middlcficld. I for one have been very much 

 interested in what has been said here to-night, and with your 

 permission I would like to make one or two remarks, as I 

 know something about some of the experiments that have 

 been alluded to here. I would just like to make one remark, 

 however, in regard to those who use commercial fertilizers, of 

 wliom it has been said that they leave their land in a poverty- 

 stricken condition for those who come after them. There 

 may be exceptions to the rule, but as far as my observation goes, 

 those who use commercial fertilizers the most are those who 

 have their land in the highest state of cultivation. Notwith- 

 standing this remark, my last instruction to my men this 

 morning was to go to work raking leaves in the woods. 



There have been a number of questions asked here by some 

 gentlemen who have not used commercial fertilizers at all, in 

 reference to the best fertilizers to be used upon corn and upon 

 other crops. 1 have been exceedingly pleased to hear the 

 remarks by the lecturer, Mr. Hubbard, in reference to his 

 experience with Prof. Atwater's manures, and also with the 

 remarks of my friend deacon Augur, and I do feel like say- 

 ing tliat when I heard tlic reflections, as I thought, cast upon 

 Prof. Atwater this morning, I felt a little like putting a bee 

 in that gentleman's hair. I do not know very much about 

 commercial fertilizers, sir, but for nearly all I do know about 

 them I am indebted to Prof. Atwater. Here is one gentle- 

 man from Middletown ; here is another from Middlefield, in 

 the immediate vicinity of Middletown ; there is another from 

 the immediate vicinity of Middletown, who have experimented 

 with Prof. Atwater's sets of fertilizers, at his request. He 



