BARNSTABLE SOCIETY. 391 



In March, 1851,1 carted out from the yard twenty-five cords 

 of good compost manure, all worked over by the shoats, the 

 worth of which I shall not pretend to decide, but which I 

 have no doubt is valuable. Cost, at ^1 per load, is $25. 



Heap No. 2 was composed of the scrapings of my barn yard 

 through the summer and fall, together with sea-drift, muck, 

 and anything else I could get. I put on two casks of lime 

 and two bushels of salt, and a lot of sizing made of all the 

 slop matter I could obtain. In February last, I carted the 

 whole to land I intended for corn, into heaps of sixteen loads 

 each, where it remained till 1 wanted to plough in April, 

 wheti I carted it out and ploughed it in. The heaps contained 

 192 horse loads or 38| cords, the cost of which was $1 25 per 

 cord, making $48. 



Heap No. 3 consisted of the manure of one horse, one colt, 

 (two years old,) one cow and one yearling heifer. 1 saved the 

 urine of all these animals, by means of a vat in my barn cellar. 

 I commenced this heap March 1st with a layer of sea-drift, a 

 layer of barn yard manure and a layer of muck, and so on 

 till it was raised five or six feet high. I then turned on my 

 sizing, and in a few days there was heat tifficient to rot the 

 whole mass. I then carted it to my corn land and ploughed it 

 in. This heap contained llf cords, at $1 per cord, .^^ll GO. 



Orleans, Oct. 8, 1851. 



