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heaps from my upland, and could put them here with as little 

 trouble as elsewhere. The covering took perhaps two or three 

 days more, — the whole expense not exceeding six dollars, for 

 reclaiming nearly 1| acres. 



I have also an interval of fifty or sixty acres, near the centre 

 of which, was a spot of about two acres, too wet to plough, and 

 covered with little knolls, — probably where trees had been 

 rooted out, — which made the mowing there very difficult. In 

 fact, it was scarcely worth mowing, as there was no grass on 

 the knolls. I ploughed off the knolls, and filled the hollows, 

 covering the ground well with the dirt from the knolls, and yet 

 carting off" to the compost heap quite thirty loads, with which 

 I mixed about six loads of stable manure, making a rich com- 

 post. I then covered this spot with compost manure, at the 

 rate of fifteen loads to the acre. The second year it yielded 

 a very bountiful crop of clover and herd's grass, at least six 

 times more than before reclaiming. The expense attending 

 this experiment, was about eight days' labor for the two acres, 

 which was amply repaid by the thirty loads carted to the com- 

 post heap. I now get three tons to the acre from this hereto- 

 fore useless spot. 



WoRTHiNGTON, Dec. 30, 1848. 



On Poultry. 



Lyman Church's Statement. 



As there appear to be doubts in the minds of many respecting 

 the truth of the statement heretofore presented by me, in regard 

 to the results of my experiment with poultry, I take the liberty 

 of presenting another statement, which will also show what 

 has been done, as well as what can be done, in regard to mak- 

 ing the keeping of poultry profitable. 



