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mained thrifty. Four hills which were planted a little aside, 

 and overlooked by the boys, rotted entirely. This was our ex- 

 periment, and the results thereof I have no wish to withhold 

 from the community; you are at liberty to make what use of 

 it you think proper. My Avife suggests the propriety of an ear- 

 lier application, repeated in small quantities. 



Yours respectfully, 



E. WING. 

 West Goshen, Conn., May 13, 1851. 



The application of slacked lime to potatoes is not new with 

 Mr. Wing ; a farmer in a neighboring town has informed the 

 chairman, that he has for several years used lime successfully 

 as a preventive to the potato rot ; he applied it when planting 

 the root. It is hoped that the farmers of our county will make 

 the trial of lime both as a preventive and as a remedy for the 

 potato rot. It will be attended with little trouble or cost, and 

 if it should fail to benefit the potato crop, it will do the land no 

 injury: if it should prove successful, a great blessing will be se- 

 cured to the country. They will not fail to remember that the 

 results of all such experiments, whether they prove for good or 

 for ill, should be communicated to the public. 



JOHN W. LINCOLN, Chairman. 



Harvey Dodge's Statement. 

 In my account with my carrot fields, no manure is carried to 

 the credit of a future crop, as has been the practice with me in 

 former years, it being a matter of some doubt how much should 

 be credited for the next crop. The committee will no doubt 

 understand by what they saw when here, that the young apple 

 trees of four and five years growth, on the two lots on which 

 the carrots were growing, were claiming a large share of my 

 attention, and the question maybe asked, why do you not grow 

 from eight to ten hundred bushels instead of the crops reported 

 this year and last ? To this I would answer, that the growth 

 of trees added to 550 bushels would equal in value a crop of 

 carrots of eight hundred bushels per acre. 



