The land where Mangolds, Carrots and Onions were sown 

 was in eacli case divided into quarters and fertilized with the 

 following chemicals in addition to liarnyard manure, but either 

 the remarkable season, the rot or the cut-worm have prevented 

 my experiment from being useful, and I only give the chemi- 

 cals applied : — one-fourth without any fertilizer, one-fourth with 

 one hundred pounds Phosphatic Blood Guano, one-fourth with 

 one hundred pounds Muriate of Potash, one-fourth with one 

 hundred pounds Phosphatic Blood Guano and one hundred 

 pounds Muriate of Potash. 



A part of my Potato piece, being exhausted land plowed 

 last Autumn for the first time for many years, I dressed as 

 follows : — Spread at tho rate of five casks of lime per acre in 

 the Autumn, and in the Spring four liundred pounds Phosphatic 

 Blood Guano, three hundred pounds Muriate of Potash and 

 two hundred pounds Nitrate of Soda. I have not the figures 

 at hand to tell the exact amount of land thus treated, but it is 

 sufficient to say that 1 also measured another portion of land 

 of the same character, which was manured with barnyard 

 manure in the hill, and ascertained the amount of the crop on 

 each piece. The land with chemical manure yielded thirty- 

 five bushels. The land with barnyard manure yielded ninety- 

 seven bushels. The potatoes were much injured by rot, 

 estimated loss being thirty-three per cent. 



The fodder-corn was sown on exhausted grass land, quite 

 gravelly, and manured in the hill with barnyard manure. Some 

 of it reached a height of eleven feet in nine weeks from the 

 time of seeding. 



The Carrot crop should be spoken of. Your Committee will 

 remember the fine appearance of my carrots when they saw 

 them. Not long after that time a blight struck the tops and 

 blackened many of them, and later in examining the roots, I 

 found them rotting last, and tliat in places only the hole where 

 the carrot had grown and rotted entirely away, could be found. 

 In plowing the ground after tlie crop had been removed, it was 

 surprising, also, to sec how many rotting roots were necessarily 

 left in the ground. I judge forty per cent, to be a fair estimate 

 of the loss. 



