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5. What is the average quantity of manure obtained from your 

 slock ? What quantities, and to what crops do you apply it ? 



6. Do you use peat, muck, lime, plaster of paris, marl, refuse fish, 

 or any other manures ' To v^hal extent, with what success ? Please 

 inform the convention how far the system adopted by yourself is car- 

 ried out by your neighbors, and their success. 



7. Do you or your neighbors purchase manures ? 



8. Are any of the new farming implements used in your district ? 

 With what success ? 



9. Is drainage resorted to ? 



10. What is the nature of your soil, and the best crops that grow 

 upon it naturally ? 



11. Have you or your neighbors perceived any very great advan- 

 tage always to follow the use of any particular manure ? 



1 2. Is fallowing green crops common ? What crops ? What is the 



improvement ? 



13. When do you cut grass, or reap oats, rye, wheat, corn, &e. ?; 

 In the milk, or when dry ? 



14. Have you or your neighbors seen any great difference in the 

 weight, quality, and sweetness of grain or fodder collected at these 

 different times ? 



15. Does grain cut in the milk yield whiter and sweeter flour ? Has 

 it as much substance as other wheat ? 



16. What new crops are raised in your district ? Is madder, hemp, 

 garden vegetables for the market, corn for sugar, or any other pecu- 

 liar crop, cultivated by you or within your observation ? By what 

 means ? What are the profits and prospects ? 



17. Have experiments been made on the introduction of any new 

 substances ? 



18. What orchards have you, or are there any in your district? 

 How are they cultivated ? With what profits ? 



