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a year. 1 believe it takes about 20 or 30 

 minutes for a good stout man to scatter a 

 load of manure. A spreader will do it as 

 (luick as a team can go from one end of the 

 lot to the other. In fact, we have our heaps 

 of manure at each end of the lot, so that we 

 throw a load on at one end, drive across, 

 load up again, go back, and so on. Our 

 best authorities on market-gardening rec- 

 ommend from tifty to one hundred loads of 

 manure per acre, every season ; suppose, 

 however, we say 2.). A man with 10 acres 

 of land to be manured each year would have 

 2.50 loads to spread. If the labor saved by 

 the use of the spreader amounts to only 10 

 cts. a load, we sliould have $25.00, and I 

 think it would pay well, under the above 

 circumstances, to purchase a spreader. In 

 view, howevei'. of the better results to be ob- 

 taiued, we miglit say it would pay with only 



joining farmers had from 12 to 15. There is much 

 manure hauled out and put in piles that is a waste. 

 C. H. MrdTM.ouoH. 

 Troy, Ohio, Nov. 28, 1886. 



The point made in the above is, I think, 

 an excellent one. I know that about all the 

 leading authorities on agriculture are now- 

 recommending that manure be not put on 

 the ground until either just before the crop 

 is put in, or even after the seed is put in, as 

 above ; and some advise that half of the 

 manure be put on at the time the crop is put 

 in the ground, and the other half to be put 

 between the rows when the croj) is partly 

 grown. Peter Henderson emy>hatically ad- 

 vises, in his recent writings, that the ma- 

 nure be finely spread on the top of the 

 ground, after the ground is all properly fit- 

 ted, instead of being plowed under. 



The best machine for working the manure 

 into the ground after it is spread by the ma- 



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acres to be manured every season. In 



regard tn this latter point, J submit a letter 

 from Olio ul' our Ohio men, that the manu- 

 facturers of tile manure-spreader sent me 

 some time ago : 



.V/ex.s7s. Kim^iA Burpo Mfg. Co., Syracuse, A'. 1'. :— 

 I thought 1 would send you a line in regard to my 

 manure-spreader. I have been using it about three 

 yeai-s, hauling oiu from 200 to 300 loads per year, 

 an<l have had no occasion for repairs of our own 

 breaking. [ have been hauling pure cow-dung to- 

 day that we could not have spread off a wagon with 

 forks. I would not take $200 for mine and be with- 

 out it. T can unload quicker than four men can 

 load it. When I loan it out I charge $1.00 per day 

 for It. A word in regard to its use on my wheat 

 gi-ound. 1 sow my wheat, then go over it with the 

 spreader, putting on about 1.5 loads to the acre. 

 This vear I had 27 bushels to the acre, while the ad- 



ULTIVATOR. 



nure-spreader, is the Acme harrow, de- 

 scribed and illustrated in Chapter XXYI. 

 Where the manure is spread over the 

 ground after the crop is partly up, of course 

 the full-sized Acme can not be used ; but the 

 manufacturers have lately brought out what 

 they call the Acme cultivator, figured above. 

 This works the manure in beautifully, 

 and is the best cultivator I have got hold of 

 for breaking the crust on the ground, work- 

 ing it up fine, and leaving the ground level 

 after it is passed over. We have used it 

 during the past season, with the greatest 

 satisfaction, between the rows of celery, un- 

 til the plants were large enough to need a 

 little earthing-up. A neighbor has also 

 used it for cultivating corn ; and although 



