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of muck, and in the spring, I get from ten to twelve loads of 

 very excellent manure, enough for an acre of corn. The quan- 

 tity of my manure is very great, but I pride myself more upon 

 its quality, as a top-dressing. I think it decidedly better than 

 ordinary barn-yard manure for that purpose, and for this rea- 

 son, — this muck manure does not dry. It may be applied in 

 the dryest weather, and the first rain, afterwards, will start the 

 grass ; while with barn-yard manure, it is too much like making 

 a platform over the roots, and spreading the manure on it. The 

 muck can penetrate to the roots of the grass at all times, while 

 the barn -yard manure remains in lumps, and evaporates, espe- 

 cially on dry ground. In the application of this manure, I 

 have found it better for cold, moist lands, that were worn out, 

 than for land previously tilled, in the proportion of three to 

 one. Upon such land, T have found twelve or fifteen loads of 

 muck manure to increase the weight of produce four-fold. I 

 tried the experiment upon a piece of moist, spongy, cold land, 

 of rather more than an acre in extent, where I did not get eight 

 hundred pounds of hay to the acre. I used about twelve loads 

 to the acre, and now get between two and three tons of good 

 hay ; and to get this yield, only requires top dressing once in 

 three or four years, the land being so moist and spongy, as to 

 retain all the fertilizing power of the muck manure. 



WoRTHiNGTON, Dec. 30, 1848. 



Turning in Green Crops. 



Nathaniel Easrer''s Statement. 



This experiment has occupied several years. I have devoted 

 no little time and attention to it, and, I am happy to say, with 

 the most satisfactory results. I had about two and a half acres 

 of meadow, which was entirely worn out, and when I seeded 

 it down, the grass would not take. I commenced by spreading 

 green stable manure over it, at the rate of about twelve loads 

 to the acre, and ploughed it in, rolled it, furrowed it, and 

 planted to corn, adding about eight loads of manure to the acre, 

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