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view are worthy of your careful consideration. They may not be 

 decisive of all matters suggested, nor even conclusive in any mat- 

 ter, except that the system employed tends to wonderful improve- 

 ment of products. There may be ways of cheapening the work. 

 All these matters are for your consideration. 



W. A. ARMSTRONG. It is alleged that Mr. Cole has used a great 

 deal of manure on his grounds, and that the remarkable fruits of 

 which he speaks may be credited properly to that source. Now it 

 will be gratifying to gentlemen here to learn just how much ma- 

 nure has been used, in order that credit may be given where it be- 

 longs. 



MR. COLE. In 1883 I used possibly sixty loads of manure on the 

 whole five acres under treatment not more than sixty loads of 

 barnyard manure, composted with muck and all the forest leaves I 

 could get, with sonje lime and some ashes, all used on the surface. 

 That is the extent of the application, and no manure has been 

 applied since. I say sixty loads, because I wish to exceed the 

 amount ; I am sure that not more than that quantity was ap- 

 plied, but I have not the exact figures, and am, therefore, obliged 

 to fix an outside limit which is entirely safe. I believe this laud, 

 after three years more, will want no more manure, for enough will 

 be obtained through the solids left by waters, which in draining 

 away, part with all substances, animalculae and everything else 

 that in its decay will furnish plant food. You will observe that 

 everything the water contains must stop in the soil and be held for 

 use, and there is enough in insect life,. if it can be appropriated, to 

 nourish plants quite as effectually as moderate application of 

 manure. This very morning I gave one of my men fifty cents to 

 Tauy Paris green to kill potato beetles on the vines, without a doubt 

 that the beetles, when incorporated in the soil, will be worth more 



