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value of the manure he put on his plots and the commercial 

 fertilizers. 



Mr. Wake. I intended to have the commercial value the 

 same in both cases. I said I applied the barnyard manure 

 at the rate of seven cords to the acre, but I may be mistaken. 

 I calculated the value of barnyard manure in the market, and 

 intended to put on the same value of that as I did of the 

 commercial fertilizers. I am very glad you called my atten- 

 tion to that, because, after I made that statement, I thought 

 perhaps I might have made a mistake. 



Mr. Emery. Will the gentleman tell us what his ma- 

 nure cost on the land ? 



Mr. Ware. The gentleman will understand that I have 

 just made a correction. I don't remember whether it was 

 seven cords or not, but I put on the same commercial value, 

 reckoning it at seven dollars a cord. That was about the 

 value of barnyard manure in my locality at that time. 



Mr. Emery. The reason I asked the question is, that 

 manure carried from the city and put upon the land will cost 

 ten dollars a cord ; that would be seventy dollars per acre. 



Mr. Ware. I reckoned it at the market price in my lo- 

 cality. 



Mr. Emery. Twenty-three dollars' worth of commercial 

 fertilizers to the acre would be enough to raise that amount 

 of corn. I should say that the fertilizers would cost not over 

 one-third as much as the barnyard manure. 



Mr. Ware. I hope the audience will bear in mind that 

 I have corrected my statement as to the seven cords per acre. 

 I say that I put on the same value of commercial fertilizers 

 that I did of the manure, reckoning the manure at seven 

 dollars per cord. 



Mr. Emery. Would you think that twent3^-three dollars' 

 worth of barnyard manure on an acre of ground would carry 

 it four years ? 



Mr. Ware. Whatever it was, it did do that, and there 

 is the result now. You can see to a foot where the line was 

 drawn. 



Mr. Emery. I use barnyard manure, I keep forty- live 

 or fifty cows and thirteen horses, and make about a hundred 

 cords of manure. I add to this about seventv-five cords of 



