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further prosecution. These inducements led me to have exca- 

 vated several hundred loads of it, during- the season when most 

 available. This heap, after lying several months, was tried 

 as a top-dressing, and harrowed in on land which had been 

 ploughed for corn and potatoes. The results which followed 

 this trial induced me to continue tlie experiment, and I speak 

 with entire confidence, when I assert the success which has 

 attended the use of muck, used in the form of compost, made 

 with two loads of muck and one of green or unfermented 

 manure, which is preferable ; or the muck used alone, after 

 being sufficiently digested in the heap. It is to the results of 

 this practice which I have called the attention of the commit- 

 tee, in the examination of the farm, as more especially worthy 

 of their notice, and indicated by the crops standing upon the 

 ground at the time of their visit. I present no claim for origi- 

 nality of design or execution in the pursuit of this experiment, 

 but present my farm with the improvements, which have been 

 made by the most economical, and, I believe, judicious means, 

 in my power. I give you a memorandum of the available pro- 

 ducts of the farm for the present season, which I think are not 

 overestimated, and will exhibit the entire arrangement of the 

 farm. 



The remaining ten acres are not available as tillage, but arc 

 available as a fund for the future improvement of the farm, in 

 the article of muck, and other materials for the compost heap. 

 In the use of stimulating materials for my crops, I have but 

 little experience, — plaster answers well on some crops, but 

 does not avail on many others, especially the narrow leafed 

 grasses and the grain crops ; vines, clover, and potatoes, are 

 especially benefited by the use of plaster. I sometimes have 

 tried, with signal benefit, a mixture of muck, hen manure, and 



