168 CORRESPONDENCE. 



one hundred bushels of marl per acre-: the laud pro- 

 duced a good crop of rye, and has cut a ton of clover 

 hay per acre every year since. He also states that 

 Squancum marl was first used about thirty years ago, 

 by Derick Chamberlain, under the name oi creek mud : 

 it caused the piece of land thus manured to produce 

 double the quantity it had done before, and the effect 

 on the land is still visible. — Franklin Mercury. 



CORRESPONDENCE, 



To the Editor of the Cultivator : 



Sir, — I have more than fifty acres of tillage and 

 mowing lands, and have as yet been unable to make 

 the whole as productive as I could wish. 1 keep, on 

 the average, twenty-five head of cattlcj including one 

 horse and one yoke of oxen. 



Some of my neighbors advise me to purchase ma- 

 nure, and raise grain and fatten pork for the market ; 

 other tell me to raise little grain, and depend on roots 

 for fattening ; some advise me to make one acre rich 

 this year, and plough in my manure one foot deep ; 

 then take another acre next year. At this rate, I must 

 be fifty years in going through the whole, and I fear 

 my first acre would again become poor before I gol 

 through with the process. 



I have several acres of sandy loam land, and such 

 will not hold its richness long without a new applica- 

 tion of something or other, and I have not much ma- 

 nure to spare after planting my best land with corn 

 and potatoes. In truth, before I can half go through 

 with manuring and enriching, my first piece suffers for 

 the want of another dressing. 



I must have g^rain ai^d potatoes, or go without pork j 



