188 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



in September we used one hundred loads more that was made 

 in the interval in that way, by the droppings from the cows, 

 horses and pigs, all worked together. The pigs would tear a 

 load of this surface soil all to pieces in a day or two, and then 

 we would throw in another, or two or three, sometimes ; and on 

 a rainy day, we would throw in four or five loads. It was my 

 intention to make a good cart-load — thirty bushels — every day. 

 In September I ploughed some five acres of pretty good grass 

 land, and dressed it with this manure which we had made in 

 that time, and seeded it down immediately. It looked finely 

 before the snow came, and I expect to get a good crop of grass 

 there next year. 



I have reflected a great deal upon this subject of manure, and 

 I am very confident that we have all of us got to be more care- 

 ful, or most of us, at any rate. I suppose there are some gen- 

 tlemen who are as careful as they can be, or think they are ; 

 and yet I apprehend they are not, after all. I think that, none 

 of us is quite so careful as he ought to be, in saving all these 

 fertilizing materials. 



Mr. Hubbard. I think we shall all derive great benefit from 

 the essay which we have heard from our worthy chairman. It 

 brings to my mind, what needs to be brought to the mind of 

 every farmer in the Commonwealth — the great law of compen- 

 sation that is forever operating. If we are continually taking 

 from the lands of New England, we have got to supply that 

 waste in some way. Well, if we will just consider the matter, 

 and save all we may save that is taken from the soil of New 

 England, and return it again to the soil, we shall obey that law 

 of compensation, and supply the waste we have occasioned. 



The gentleman has referred to one thing which brings up in 

 my mind this idea : that not only may we save all that we take 

 from the soil of New England, and return it again, and thus 

 make it productive, but, in addition to that, we may save what 

 is brought here from the West. New England is not wholly a 

 farming section of country, but, as has been said, it is the great 

 workshop of the country ; and we go to the far West, to those 

 soils which are very productive, and which, as the chairman has 

 said, do not need, at the present time, this compensation for 

 what is taken from them, — we go there for much that we con- 

 sume, and, as I have said, in addition to all we can save of what 



