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08 possible this year, and you will liiul it returning to you in 

 the harvest time. Apply five to ten bushels of salt per acre, to 

 all corn land. Next year, or this if you can get it, apply two 

 hundred or three hundred pounds per acre, of Peruvian guano, 

 in the hill. Or sow two hundred pounds guano broadcast, and 

 put one hundred pounds plaster in the hills. Or, if you keep 

 poultry, sow three hundred pounds superphosphate of lime, and 

 apply a handful of poultry droppings to each hill. We have 

 reliable reports of one hundred and sixteen bushels per acre, 

 and of two hundred bushels upon one acre, in South Carolina, 

 by underdraining, subsoiling, and the application of two hun- 

 dred pounds of guano and three huna/ed pounds of plaster to the 

 acre. We have also reports, from nine farmers in Kentucky, 

 of from ninety to one hundred and eighty-nine bushels per 

 acre, by the same process. Geo. C. Gilmer, of Charlottesville, 

 Virginia, raised last year, on twenty-five acres, two hundred 

 and fifty barrels of corn, by means of this thorough cultivation, 

 and one ton superphosphate of lime, one ton old dominion 

 fertilizer, and one ton of plaster mixed. This is at the rate of 

 about two hundred and fifty pounds per acre, of the mixture. 

 Fifty acres of the same farm, cultivated shallow, and without 

 fertilizers, produced one hundred barrels. The above remarks 

 apply equally to eastern and western farmers, save that the 

 former must depend mainly upon the manure of grain-fattened 

 stock ; use more ashes, bones, etc. The droppings of poultry, 

 composted with peat or charcoal, can hardly be esteemed too 

 highly, as a dressing for the hill at planting time. The pou 

 drette described on page 52, is still richer for the same 

 purpose. 



The following experiment shows the economy of liberal cul- 

 ture. 



A twenty-acre corn plot was divided into two plots, which 



