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prize essay, by Professor Turner, on the application of manure 

 to the farm : — 



" I find the action of manure taken fresh from the yards in July so 

 satisfactory, that I feel no inducement whatever to keep back the more 

 costly, well-rotted manure for this purpose. With the uncertainty how 

 the season may alternate between showers and a powerful sunshine, I 

 cannot wish the ammonia in the dung to be in a forward state of devel- 

 opment. If the supply of food is small at first, but increasing as the 

 herbage grows round, through and over the dung, waste will be most 

 effectually prevented." 



We commend the above views in connection with the 

 experiment of Mr. Rogers, to our thinking farmers. The 

 experiment has been carefully made, and the statement of it 

 is admirably drawn up. We take great pleasure in placing 

 it upon our records, in the Transactions, confident that it will 

 help sustain the high character they have had in the past, and 

 which it is our duty to endeavor to give to them in the future. 



Allen W. Dodge. 



Statement of Benjamin P. Ware. 



Upon the 20th of April, the land, (a description of which 

 may be found in my last year's statement,) being sufficiently 

 dry, I ploughed it eight inches deep, and then harrowed it. 

 May 30th, I cross-ploughed it, harrowed and dragged it, which 

 left the land in good condition for the seed. June 1st, I sowed 

 with orange globe mangolds in drills, twenty inches apart, ten 

 drills in each lot, using no manure upon any of the five lots. 

 I propose to continue the experiment upon lot No. 6, by the 

 spreading upon the furrows, after the cross-ploughing, fine com- 

 post manure, composed of meadow mud, sea-kelp, and stable 

 manure, of equal parts, the whole drenched with night soil 

 forked over several times until well mixed and pulverized, at 

 the rate of nine cords per acre, which was harrowed in. In all 

 other respects, this lot was cultivated precisely as the other five. 

 Hoping by this experiment to prove the profit or loss of the 

 annual use of a liberal quantity of manure, in comparison witli 

 none at all or once in three years, the experiment on this lot 

 I respectfully offer for the Society's premium, independent of 



