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In the fall, and spread it just before a rain. 



9. How do you apply manure, composted, or not ; ploughed 

 under or on the surface, and what quantity per acre? 



I compost my manure in my barn cellar, with peat and 

 wash from the road side, soil from beside the walls, &;c. On 

 dry land I plough It in ; on moist land I spread after plough- 

 ing, and harrow thoroughly. I made last year 297 loads. My 

 carts hold thirty bushels. 



10. Do you use guano, how, and with what results ? 



1 have used considerable guano mixed with charcoal dust, 

 or plaster. Charcoal dust is the best absorbent of ammonia. 

 I consider guano a very valuable stimulant to start corn, or as 

 a top-dressing for grass land. 



11. The same of plaster and lime ? 



Plaster I use annually, sowing it on my pastures, from one 

 to three bushels to the acre ; also putting it on my potatoes, a 

 small quantity to each hill at the time of planting, or immedi- 

 ately after they come up. I have but little land on which lime 

 would work favorably. 



12. Whatcourse do you pursue in draining — open,or under- 

 drains, use tiles, stones, or brush ? 



An answer to this qustion will be found in the body of my 

 statement. 



13. What depth do you commonly plough ; do you use the 

 subsoil plough, and think it advantageous or not ? 



I have been gradually deepening my soil, and now run my 

 surface plough down from eight to ten inches, according to 

 the land I am working. When I came upon my farm, the 

 land had been skinned, emphatically, both in being ploughed 

 and cropped. I think that the plough of the tenant, (which I 

 bought of him for fifty cents, on his leaving, and dear at that,) 

 had not run more than three or four inches deep in the time 

 that he carried on the farm. I have had a subsoil plough for 

 the last three years, and consider its use of great advantage to 

 the farmer, particularly is the benefit derived from it perceiyed 

 in a summer like the past. 



14. Have you reclaimed bog meadow, and how ? 



I have one small piece (about an acre) of bog meadow re- 

 claimed. My course was to take out the bushes, — bunches 

 of which as high as my head were scattered thickly over it, — 



