70 ON TURNING IN CROPS AS A MANURE. 



There are plenty of such farms to be found. He goes to work on 

 the green-crop feritlizing plan, and expends in seed, laboi, &c., $500, 

 and puts his whole crop under the soil. Income 0. Account of 

 farm Dr. to cash and int. $530. 



B. buys at the same time a similar fai^m, lays out in compost and 

 labor $500, and obtains a crop worth $580. In the spring follow- 

 ing his account will stand : 



Farm Dr. to cash and int. $500 00 



Farm Cr. by crops, 530 00 



Second year, A. lays out in labor, &c., $500, seed $530— $1030. 

 In the spring following his account will stand : 

 Farm Dr. to cash, $1066 80 



Farm Cr. by crops, 1360 80 to equal B.'s porfits. 



Second year, B. lays out in labor $500. His account in the 

 spring will stand : 



Farm Dr. to cash, $530 00 



Farm Cr. by crops, 800 00 gain $300, 



Will A. get so much more than B. the second year. I think not. 



I think that B. will get the largest crop the second year. But in 



this I may be mistaken ; but so long as good materials for compost 



can be easily obtained, I think we should do nothing to divert the 



attention of the farmers of Essex from the "powers of mud," as a 



regenerator of worn out tillage lands. The fact that there has been 



no claimants for the premiums offered for the best experiment of 



ploughing in green or dry crops — premiums, which would defray all 



the expenses of the experiment, and leave all the betterment of the 



land as clear gain, speaks loudly the opinion of practical farmers on 

 this subject. 



Yours, respectfully, 



ANDREW NICHOLS. 



To Rev. E. M. Stone. 



Andover, October 11th, 1847. 



Dear Sir : — With regard to ploughing in green or dry crops for 

 manure, my experience is rather limited. I have a field containing 

 5 acres, lying about one mile from the house, (ratlier too far to carry 



