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has been treated exclusively with concentrated 

 fertilizers, and carried over a period of seven years, 

 the seasons embracing the extremes of dry and 

 wet, and these are the results. Are they satisfac- 

 tory, or is the experiment a successful one ? 



The corn crop, seventy-eight bushels of shelled 

 corn to the acre, is not bad ; the rye crop, thirty- 

 one bushels, would not be disappointing to most 

 farmers ; and the succeeding crops of hay, amount- 

 ing in the five consecutive years to nearly ten tons, 

 are certainly a fair product for high land, subject 

 to unfavorable influence of drought. The cash 

 value of the crops at the farm, if they had been 

 sold at the time they were gathered, would have 

 reached fully four hundred dollars the acre. But 

 it should be stated that corn in 1864 was worth two 

 dollars and fifty cents the bushel, and all the crops 

 have ruled high since. The cost of the fertilizing 

 agents employed has been a little over forty-four 

 dollars ; the cost of labor cannot be exactly stated, 

 but it is certain the field has afforded a clean profit 

 of one hundred per cent, each year. 



If space permitted, the details of other experi- 

 ments undertaken on the farm might be given, but 

 enough has been said to convey a general idea of 

 the nature and design of the work. It is worth 

 something to know that a run-down farm can be in 

 a fair measure rejuvenated and made productive by 



