Ex'periment Station Re'port. 



103 



The upper layer may be used advantageously as bedding 

 and as an absorber of liquid manure ; the lower layer ought 

 to be composted with lime or ashes before it is incorporated 

 in the soil. Both samples are of a good quality. 



The ashes were obtained from the burning of the surface 

 growth of a swamp meadow lately in part underdraiued. 

 Bogs, tussocks, and a few inches thickness of the turf, fur- 

 nished the ash. The dried-up condition of the vegetable 

 matter explains the presence of but a small quantity of pot- 

 ash. The ash may prove beneficial upon adjoining grass 

 lands. 



Tobacco Stems. 

 (Sent by E. S. Warner, Hatfield, Mass.) 



Valuation per ton of two thousand pounds 



3.80 pounds nitrogen, at IS cents, 

 124.20 pounds potassium oxide, at 4|- cents, . 

 J7,40 pounds phosphoj-ic acid, at 6 cents, , 



$9 68 

 5 28 

 1 04 



$16 00 



