No. 4.] COMMEKCIAL FERTILIZERS. 33 



Owing to the wet spring, we were delayed in sov/ing the 

 fertilizer, thus losing some of its benefits this season. The 

 result of the labors of 1893 was as follows : — 



To fertilizer and applying, $195 00 



To harvesting, 131 00 



To Acme sower, 48 00 



To taxes, 50 00 



$424 00 



By hay sold and estimated to be sold, 



By grass sold in field, 



By rent of house and land, 



By balance, 



Total for the three years, commencing after a lapse of two 

 years from the time of any application of stable manure or 

 the use of plough or re-seeding : — 



To total cost of fertilizer, ...... $390 00 



To harvesting, taxes, etc., 571 00 



$961 00 



By receipts for three years, 2,U09 00 



By balance, $1,048 00 



In the position to which I had been called, my opportuni- 

 ties to test the merits of commercial fertilizer were more 

 diversified ; it was used in raising all kinds of crops gener- 

 ally grown upon our New England farms. Our main and 

 principal crop was hay. We used it upon land that had not 

 Ijeen ploughed for seven years, and it would start and ma- 

 ture a good crop of grass where stable manures, by its side, 

 would fail to act satisfactorily. We re-seeded grass land 

 that had become exhausted for the want of fertilizer, and 

 for the purpose of securing a crop of clear timothy or to 

 get a seeding of permanent meadow grass. In each and 

 every case, with two exceptions, it gave entire satisfaction, 

 so that where we formerly purchased from 300 to 500 cords 

 of stable manure per year, we bought commercial fertilizer, 



