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fited, and the expense of cultivation lessened by a judicious and 

 liberal use of Guano, wherever barn manure, though it were a gift, 

 must be carted more than half a mile. In this opinion he is con- 

 firmed by the extraordinary effects produced on the nearly exhausted 

 soils of Virginia, and Maryland, and Kentucky, and North Carolina, 

 of which reliable accounts are given in the publications of the day. 



PHOSPHATES AND SUPER PHOSPHATES OF LIME. 



Of the value of these fertilizers and their effects, neither expe- 

 rience nor observation enables us to speak with confidence. From 

 the remarks made to us by judicious and intelligent farmers, and from 

 the favorable accounts, which we presume are in all respects reliable, 

 given of experiments made with them, we are induced to urge upon 

 the farmers of this County the careful and thorough trial of their 

 use in different modes of operation, and upon different sorts of vege- 

 table culture. We believe that every new discovery in this depart- 

 ment of agriculture, and every instance of the successful application 

 of concentrated manure to the soil is of vast importance to the 

 farmer, and will help to lessen the hardships of his occupation, to 

 increase the sum of his gains, and to enlarge the opportunity for his 

 rest and intellectual and social enjoyment and improvement. 



CORN FODDER. 



The cultivation of this highly nutritious, succulent food was long 

 ago recommended by one of the most eminent Agriculturists in this 

 part of our country, the Hon. Timothy Pickering, of Salem, first 

 President of the Essex Agricultural Society. In this County, as in 

 Essex, and elsewhere, it has been uniformly attended with the best 

 results. Tracts of old pasture land, and of light, sandy soil, have 

 been made to produce large crops of this choice feed for Dairy Cows, 

 at a period when the grass on such land would have failed to furnish 

 even a tolerable supply ; while, at the same time, the soil has been 

 placed in the most suitable condition for future tillage and other 

 crops. 



