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can get I want to put on when I seed the land down. I 

 have used thirty-five loads to the acre ; and, if I had manure 

 enough for a good deal more than that, I should put it on. 

 I want to use all the manure that I can get on the farm for 

 seeding every year ; and I want to use it at that time, because 

 I want to put it where it will do the most good. I want to 

 put this manure where I am going to get the most grass 

 from it : therefore I want to put it on at the outset of the 

 course, because at that time I have sown the seed. I am 

 starting with new seed for a new crop (no wild stuff in my 

 way) ; and I want to make some big crops the first two or 

 three years in the course, and therefore I want that manure, 

 as I said, in the outset of the course. I am going to start 

 new, vigorous plants, and I want to use it to the best advan- 

 tage ; and I think I do it in that way. 



I do not want you to understand that I am going to run 

 that piece of land five years without any thing else, because 

 I do not propose to do' any thing of that kind. The first 

 year, with that manure, I take off my two crops. You may 

 say, " If it is dry weather, you are not going to get your two 

 crops." Dry weather has nothing to do with it. If you 

 have good cultivation you will get j^our two crops : I do not 

 care whether it is dry or wet. I have laid out for them, and 

 I have got them ; and I think an}^ of you can, on such land 

 as I have described. If you sow a piece of land that is 

 extremely dry, and which will be all burnt up with drought, 

 you cannot get the two crops. 



The spring of the second year, very early, I want to top- 

 dress with a fertilizer. There are some distributers now 

 made that can be attached to a horse-rake ; and I can go over 

 a piece of ground and distribute a fertilizer as quickly as 

 you can rake an acre with a horse-rake, so that the cost of 

 putting it on is not much. I want to put on five hundred 

 pounds of ground bone. I do not care about the bone being 

 dissolved; because, if you put it on your land, it is some- 

 thing that you are not going to lose : you are going to get 

 the benefit of it. At the time I put that on, I put on two 

 hundred pounds of muriate of potash to the acre. There 

 may be a great deal better combinations. I presume that 

 Dr. Nichols knows of great deal better combinations ; but on 

 my land that does better than any thing I know of. I am 



