136 AMERICAN HUSBANDRY". 



our notice of the report by copying a summary of 

 the deductions which the committee draw from the 

 facts they collected. They are as follow : 



" On dry sands, limestone, chalk, light loams, and 

 peat, bones are very valuable manure. 



They may be laid on grass with good effect. 



On arable lands, they may be laid on fallow for 

 turnips, or used for any of the subsequent crops. 



That the best method of using them, where broad- 

 cast, is previously to mix them up with earth, dung, 

 or other manures, and let them lie to ferment. 



That, if used alone, they may be either drilled with 

 the seed or sown broadcast. 



That bones.which have undergone the process of 

 fermentation are decidedly superior to those which 

 have not. 



That the quantity should bo about twenty-five 

 bushels of dust or forty bushels of large, increasing 

 the quantity if the land be impoverished. 



That upon clays and heavy loams it does not yet 

 appear that bones will answer." 



From the foregoing data, the farmer will be able 

 to judge how far bone manure is adapted to his soil ; 

 and, from estimating its cost and transportation, he 

 can calculate the economy of purchasing and apply- 

 ing it. In the report before us, it is computed to be 

 cheaper at 2*. (48 cents) per bushel for manuring, 

 than yard dung at 10s. ($2 40) the load, the price 

 the latter is stated at in Britain. The price at the 

 mills in this state is $14 to $16 per ton, which would 

 bring it to more than 40 cents a bushel. So that to 

 manure an acre with twenty-five bushels would cost 

 about $10 75, besides transportation and spreading. 

 This dressing would be equal to that afforded by 

 twenty common loads of manure, which ought to be 

 estimated to be worth 50 cents a load, besides the 

 expense of hauling it out and spreading it. It would 

 therefore seem to be cheaper than stable-manure ; 

 and, at all events, it would afford a valuable auxilia- 



