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other vegetables, I should recommend that a cask be mounted 

 on light wheels, so set that like the drill they may run each 

 side of the row and drop the liquid manure through a small 

 tap hole or tub from the cask, directly upon the young plants. 

 For preparing the liquor, I should recommend a cistern about 

 three feet deep and as large as the object may require, formed 

 of plank and laid on a bed of clay and surrounded by the same, 

 in the manner that tan vats are constructed ; this should oc- 

 cupy a warm place, exposed to the sun, near water, aad as near 

 as these requisites permit to the tillage lands of the farm. In 

 such a cistern, in warm weather, a solution of geine may be 

 made in large quantities with little labor and without the ex- 

 pense of fuel, as the heat of the sun is, I think, amply suffi- 

 cient for the purpose. If from further experiment it should be 

 found economical to water grass lands and grain crops, a large 

 cask or casks placed on wheels and drawn by oxen or horse 

 power, the liquor from the casks being at pleasure let into a 

 long narrow box perforated with numerous small holes, which 

 would spread the same over a strip of ground, some 6, 8, or 10 

 feet in breadth, as it is drawn over the field in the same man- 

 ner as the streets in cities are watered in summer. 



ANDREW NICHOLS. 



I certify that I measured the piece of land mentioned in the 

 foregoing statement, as planted with corn, on the 21st of Sep- 

 temper, 1839, and found the same to contain two acres, three 

 quarters, thirty-one rods. 



John W. Proctor, Surveyor. 



Dr. Andrew Nichols's Statement of 1 840. 



Gentlemen : — Having invited the attention of the Trustees 

 of the Essex Agricultural Society to our continued use of, and 

 experiments on, fresh meadow or peat mud, as a manure, it is 

 of course, expected that the result of these experiments should 

 be laid before them. The compost with which we planted 

 most of our corn and potatoes the present year, was composed 



