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horse-manure ; and, if you put on another ten or twelve cords, 

 it won't do any harm. I do not have any trouble in spread- 

 ing from heaps, so as to go from one heap to another, and 

 know I have got manure all over the ground. Then I use 

 considerable potash salts. I would rather have wood-ashes, 

 if I could get them. 



QuESTiox. What we farmers want to know is how much 

 manure is profitable. 



Capt. MoOKE. I don't know. I have never used, prob- 

 ably, more than ten cords to the acre, besides three or four 

 hundred, sometimes five hundred, pounds of muriate of pot- 

 ash, and sometimes a little bone besides. 



Question. Suppose you could get ashes, how many busli- 

 els would you put on an acre, besides the manure ? 



Capt. Moore. It would depend upon how cheap I could 

 get them. You see, where you are manuring a good many 

 acres, you find the cost of fertilizers and manures runs up 

 to a pretty high figure. It does on my place, and I have only 

 a small place to what some of you farmers have here, I sup- 

 pose ; although I have to pay out about five thousand dollars 

 a year for labor, and I have to raise enough to pay for the 

 labor. 



Question. In putting on your ten cords of manure for 

 onions, do you plough it in, and, if so, how deep? 



Capt. Moore. The wa}^ I have done the last two years is 

 this. Of course, I intend to keep all tl^e weeds out of my 

 onions, although they do get weedy sometimes towards the 

 last of the season. Purslane is the stuff that bothers me : 

 but we get that out ; we do not allow it to go to seed if it is 

 possible to prevent it. When we pull those onions, if there 

 are any weeds left, we clean them off. By the first of Octo- 

 ber there will be some more weeds growing, and we go over 

 the ground with a harrow, which discourages the weeds ; and, 

 if you get them killed, you won't have the same ones to con- 

 tend Avith next year. Then the next spring we put on our 

 manure, and go over it with a disk harrow, and stir it up 

 pretty well. If there are any lumps on it, we put on the 

 leveller and breaic them up. I do not care about stirring 

 the ground more than three inches deep. I do not think 

 there is any thing lost by pulverizing a piece of ground for 

 onions very thoroughly indeed. There is nothing lost in 



