98 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, 



Mr. Rawson. We run it two thousand feet through lead 

 pipe. 



Question. What is the size of your discharge pipe ? 



Mr. Rawson. Two and a half inch. 



Mr. Paul. Do you use special fertilizers, and, if so, with 

 what result? 



Mr. Rawson. I have used special fertilizers, but I cannot 

 tell you anything about the results. I use guano and ashes, 

 but I use them in connection with so much stable manure that 

 I cannot estimate their value. I use three or four hundred 

 dollars' worth of fertilizers every year. I put them on the 

 crops that I think they will help, and I think they do help 

 them. 



Mr. Paul. Is the object of using them to bring forward 

 the plants to early maturity? 



Mr. Rawson. Yes, sir, that is one object ; and another 

 is, when we manure in the spring at the rate of twenty or 

 twenty-five cords to the acre, we want to get two crops from 

 that piece of land, and when we put on the fertilizer, we 

 think it may help along. 



Question. Where do you market your crops ? 



Mr. Rawson. My markets are Boston and New York. I 

 shall keep on in the old way of manuring with stable manure 

 until I find something better, something as the old man did 

 who run his farm by the moon. 



Mr. Paul. I would like to ask the cost of stable manure 

 at his place, that we who are distant from sources of supplj^ 

 may know how to compare the price with commercial ferti- 

 lizers ? 



Mr. Raavson. I pay six dollars and a half a cord, deliv- 

 ered on my place. In the spring of the year I have to give 

 seven dollars. Last year I was short of manure and bought 

 about three hundred cords to put on the place I hired, and 

 that is the price I paid for it. I used it all from the first of 

 November until the first of the next May, under the hot- 

 beds. This was fine manure, for which I paid six dollars 

 and a half a cord. 



Question. Partially rotted? 



Mr. Rawson. Yes, sir ; almost entirely rotted ; it would 

 shrink but very little. 



