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same kind from the peat ashes and manure put in the hill at plant- 

 ing. For watering rows of onions or other vegetables, I should 

 recommend that a cask be mounted on light wheels, so set that like 

 the drill they may run each side of the row and drop the liquid 

 manure through a small tap-hole, or tub from the cask, directly 

 upon the young plants. For preparing the liquor, I should recom- 

 mend a cistern about three feet deep, and as large as the object may 

 require, formed of plank and laid on a bed of clay and surrounded 

 by the same, in the manner that tan-vats are constructed ; this 

 should occupy a warm place, exposed to the sun, near the water, 

 and as near as these requisites permit to the tillage lands of the 

 farm. In such a cistern, in warm weather, a solution of geine may 

 be made in large quantities with little labor, and without the ex- 

 pense of fuel, as the heat of the sun is, I think, amply sufficient for 

 the purpose. If, from further experiment, it should be found eco- 

 nomical to water grass lands and grain crops, a large cask or casks 

 placed on wheels and drawn by oxen or horse power, the liquor 

 from the casks being at pleasure let into a long narrow box perfoF- 

 ated with numerous small holes, which would spread the same over 

 a strip of ground some six, eight, or ten feet in breadth, as it is 

 drawn over the field in the same manner as the streets in cities arc 

 watered in summer. 



ANDREW NICHOLS. 

 I certify that I measured the piece of land mentionerl in the fore- 

 going statement, as planted with corn, on the 21st of September, 

 1839, and found the same to contain two acres, three quarters, 

 thirty-one rods. 



John W. Proctoe, Surveyor. 



Dr. Andrew Nichols's Statement op 1840. 

 Gentlemen : — Having invited the attention of the Trustees of 

 the Essex Agricultural Society to our continued use of, and experi- 

 ments on, fresh meadow or peat mud, as a manure, it is of course 

 expected that the result of these experiments should bo laid before 

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