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to. The above method 1 would recommend to every farmer 

 who has a barn cellar. In my estimation it well pays him for 

 his trouble and expense, to say nothing of the convenience in 

 drawing it from the cellar, to what it would be, should it be 

 allowed to remain under the stable. In the above way I make 

 from 250 to 300 loads of excellent manure in a year, which I 

 use by spreading on planting grounds, and which as yet, has 

 never failed to secure me good crops. I have a building for my 

 swine, the dimensions of which are 50 feet long by 24 wide, 

 with a cellar imder the whole, from which I make from 25 to 30 

 loads good manure per year, and from 4*0 to 50 loads in pens 

 adjoining, which is excellent manure for grass land. I make 

 from 100 to 125 loads of manure in my barnyard by drawing 

 in loam and yarding my cattle on the same, which I use on 

 mowing fields, which pays well for the labor, &c. 



In pursuing the above practice, I am supplied with a large 

 amount of first rate manure for my crops, I am confident 

 that farmers are far behind the improvements of the day 

 in this important branch of husbandry. I believe if farmers 

 would husband their resources it would supersede the necessity 

 of purchasing manure which costs at the rate of 60 dollars 

 per ton. 



Barre, September 14, 1857. 



HAMPSHIRE, FRANKLIN AND HAMPDEN. 



Statement of Georg-e Dickinson. 



I offer this statement in regard to some' experiments I have 

 made during the last season with manure, guano and ashes. 



The lot of land on which these experiments were made is 

 meadow land on the Connecticut. About one-third of the lot 

 is a sandy soil, the remaining two-thirds is a sandy loam, rest- 

 ing on a sandy subsoil. The Whole lot has been cultivated alike 

 for many years. The stable manure was applied at the rate of 

 about 340 bushes per acre, the guano at the rate of about 24 

 pounds per acre, and the ashes 20 bushels per acre. In 

 order to ascertain the comparative value of these manures, 



