730 MORROW COUNTY, OHIO. 



Wells for water are in either yard, and a windmill pump 

 attached. experiments. 



I tried what could be done with a town lot of the fourth 

 of an acre. It being yellow clay and lying high, it did not for 

 several years pay to work as it scarcely would raise white 

 beans. Spring of 1879, I put on six loads of stable manure, 

 plowed under, and planted in early potatoes. The season being 

 very dry, the manure did but little good, if any. After the 

 potatoes were dug, the ground was plowed up and made very 

 mellow. About the first of September, sowed it to rye, and 

 put on one hundred pounds bone dust, with its bulk of damp 

 ashes, all harrowed in together. There were frequent showers of 

 rain during the Fall. In seven weeks from the time of sowing, 

 the rye was sixteen to eighteen inches in length, and much of 

 it down. At this writing, December 22d, it is a perfect mat, 

 not an inch of ground to be seen, and is as green as crops any 

 -time in Spring. The calculation is to plow the rye under in 

 Spring, ^vhich I think will be a very cheap way to get worn- 

 out land into a good state to raise any kind of a crop. 



ANOTHER. 



About the first of September, 1879, about the sixth of an 

 acre, part of a public square in this place (Mt. Gilead, O.) was 

 being prepared to sow to grass. It had been filled in with yel- 

 low clay from banks. My opinion was asked what to do ; I 

 advised fine pulverizing, to sow on a peck of blue grass seed, 

 fifty pounds of bone dust, and give a light covering of barn- 

 yard manure. The above was carried out except as to the manure, 

 which was too light ; the ground could be seen too easily. The 

 result : At seven weeks' growth the grass was from eight to 

 ten inches high, ground completely covered, and it is at this time 

 very green and in a mat. Have seen a year's growth on a good 

 quality of ground not as good as the above. 



I have tried bone dust on wheat, corn, meadows, pas- 

 tures, and different garden vegetables, and in every instance 

 consider the bone dust a cheaper and quicker fertilizer at from 

 thirty to thirty-five dollars per ton, than barn-yard manure as a 



