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not a chemist, and I have to get my information in regard tu 

 all these things from actual trial ; and, if the application of 

 a particular fertilizer satisfies me that it is paying, I am 

 satisfied with that. 



Under the course I have described, I do not find any 

 trouble in getting two crops averaging about three tons to 

 the acre. I am not satisfied with that. I am gfoinsf to have 

 more, in some way or other. I think I can get it with 

 increased amount of manure. Under my method of cultiva- 

 tion the expense is as follows : — 



The labor of ploughing, harrowing, and sowing, is pre- 

 cisely the same as under the common method, -16 ; manure, 

 $35 ; the bone and potash, four years, $14 a year, would be 

 i56 ; the harvesting, five years, two crops a year, $4: each 

 time, would be 140 : that would be $137. 



The average crop for the five years, taking the average 

 price of the three tons at $17.30, would be $51.90; the 

 average cost under that system per year would be $27.40 : 

 that would leave you $24.50 with which to pay your taxes, 

 fencing, and the interest on the money. 



I can easily see that some of you will say, He has not 

 allowed any thing for carting that extra ten tons of hay in 

 the five years. That is true : that came into my mind ; 

 but you have left the land in enough better condition to pay 

 for carting that hay three or four times over. If you have 

 given it that amount of manure, ground bone, and eight 

 hundred pounds of muriate of potash, in the four years, you 

 have left that land better than it was when you started. I 

 do not think any of you can dispute that. 



There is another element of compensation which I have not 

 mentioned, — from high cultivation. I have told you that 

 the average price of a ton of hay is $17.30. The average 

 price of a ton of hay grown under high cultivation is more 

 than that. Some of you will say. If you grow hay thin, it 

 matures better ; but do you understand, that, if you grow 

 your hay thin, and leave any vacant spaces, they are to be 

 occupied by weeds and wild grasses, and your hay is not 

 worth so much per ton, and will not average as much? You 

 actually do not get so much hay, and it is not so good as it 

 would be if grown the other way. At any rate, my cattle 

 do not like it as well, and it will not bring so much money. 



