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per year, provided that for a quarter part of said manure an 

 equal value of approved (by the Committee) fertilizer may be 

 substituted at the option of the lessee. The lessor is to keep 

 the buildings in good repair. 



In accordance with said lease the Committee have had the 

 ell part of the house newly shingled and silled, and the shed 

 and sheep barn shingled. The buildings are now in good re- 

 pair. 



A three year's experiment on two acres of land has been 

 instituted for the purpose of showing the comparative value of 

 manure and two commercial fertilizers, and the durability of 

 their effects. A lot of two acres, as nearly similar in quality 

 and condition as possible, was selected, and divided into four 

 equal parts. After ploughing, part No. 1 was dressed with 

 1000 pounds of Russell Coe's superphosphate, part No. 2 

 with 1200 pounds of the Brighton Abattoir fertilizer, part No. 

 3 with four cords of good barnyard manure, and part No. 4 

 was left without any manure whatevei*. The whole was tlien 

 sowed with barley and grass seed. The effect of the Abattoir 

 fertilizer was very remarkable. There immediately sprung up 

 on part No. 2 charlock, or wild mustard, that grew so rapidly 

 and thickly as to com})letely choke and kill the barley and 

 grass. Tiie charlock was finally mowed aud burned upon the 

 ground, and the land ploughed and resowed with grass seed. 

 The whole of the two acres is now covered witli grass. 



It is not to be supposed that the fertilizer caused the char- 

 lock in this particular lot, for the charlock came up on the 

 other parts of the land just as thickly, but not until after the 

 barley had got a sufficient start to keep it under. It is fair to 

 conclude, however, that the Abattoir fertilizer has an especial 

 tendency to promote the growth of charlock, and it seems to 

 your Committee at least to hint that it may be adapted to 

 promote the growth of flat turnips, as the two plants seem to- 

 be nearly allied. 



The products of the other parts were as follows : 



