KEEPING O^E COW. 



and then dry it, by stirring into it a mixture of equal parts of 

 ground plaster and sifted coal ashes. This, in a few days, becomes 

 sulphate of potash, lime, and coal ashes, at least I judge that it 

 does, for it loses all its causticity. 



In preparing my fertilizers, I nix the product of my tanks with 

 loam, near the place to be planted ; this, in the spring, is dug over 

 (and mixed with the manure from the stable. The effect of this 

 mixing is to make the manure very fine in a very short time. 

 After plowing, this compost is spread upon the land, and harrowed 

 in. I then follow with ground bone, which costs me, delivered at 

 my place, bolted, twenty -five dollars per ton, at the rate of twelve 

 hundred pounds to the acre, and with the potash mixture, at the 

 rate of two hundred and forty pounds to the acre, which is also 

 harrowed in. In distributing the potash, I distribute more of it 

 where I intend to plant peas or potatoes, and less where I intend to 

 plant corn, squashes, and turnips. In distributing the bone, I re- 

 verse this. It is on a light, sandy loam, fertilized in this manner, 

 with an excess of nitrogen, no doubt, that I expect, the coming 

 summer, to raise enough feed for a cow on less than half an acre 

 of ground. The land on which my experiment was tried last year 

 was a turned sod that had had no manure of any kind for more 

 than ten years. This year it will be tried on land that was ma- 

 nured as above last year. 



