FERTILIZERS. 



115 



( One bushel potatoes (tu- 

 < bers). . . . 



{One bushel buckwheat, 

 48 Ibs. 

 The natural proportion of 

 straw ... 67 Ibs. 



\ One bushel onions, 50 Ibs. 



{Dry-leaf tobacco, 100 Ibs. 

 The natural proportion of 

 stalk .... 87 Ibs. 



I Seed cotton (334 Ibs. lint), 

 I 1,000 Ibs. 



< One ton meadow hay . . 

 j One bushel pease, 60 Ibs. 

 | One bushel beans, 62 Ibs. 



A PLEA FOR MERCY. 



Though repeatedly urged to write this treatise by the 

 Essex County Agricultural Society, I excused myself again 

 and again, not only from a feeling of lacking ability to do 

 the subject full justice, but also for the solid reason that it 

 would bring down on my defenceless head a shower of cor- 

 respondence asking advice and instruction on the many 

 questions which will arise in individual experience ; for, on 

 a subject so rich in its many phases, it would be impos- 

 sible to write a work that would anticipate all matter in 

 which its readers might like information. Now, it is the 

 most natural thing in the world that my good friends 

 should desire to ask these questions : I should were I in 

 their place. But if they will please turn about, and put 

 themselves in my place, and consider not only the time 

 that would be required to perform the mere manual labor 

 of answering such letters, but the thought and study that 



