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" My method of combining the potash with the muck is, first 

 to prepare a pile of muck, measure it, and make it into an 

 oblong basin, the sides and bottom of which are as nearly as 

 possible of the same thickness. I place a half-hogshead tub by 

 the side of the basin, and fill it nearly full of water ; then 

 weigh and put into it thirty-five pounds of potash for each cord 

 (or 128 cubic feet) of muck in the pile. When dissolved, the 

 solution is dipped into the basin, and the muck from the outside 

 of the basin is gradually thrown in as fast as it becomes 

 saturated. After the liquid has all disappeared, the pile should 

 be carefully worked over, and should remain a day or two, or 

 more if convenient, and then be worked over again, when it 

 may be used without delay. The potash I used was of an 

 inferior quality, and cost about three and a half cents per pound. 



" I used muck as above prepared on an old pasture, which 

 was planted the last of May, 1860. A shovelful of muck was 

 applied to each hill — the hills being at the rate of 4,500 to the 

 acre. The lot was planted to corn the first and second days of 

 June. It was the large and late variety known as the ' smutty 

 white.' The result was a success, as I considered it, though 

 the corn was not planted till the time of hoeing my other fields, 

 and yet was the only corn I had that year that ripened suffi- 

 ciently for seed. A portion of it was gathered before the 24th 

 of September. The stalks were well grown, and the yield of 

 grain above an average. 



"To me, since I have known how to prepare it, peat muck 

 is invaluable. In the compost heap, in hog pens, cow stalls, 

 and in its combinations with potash, soda-ash, guano, <fcc., it is 

 in daily demand." 



INDIAN CORN. 



MIDDLESEX NORTH. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



The committee appointed to award premiums on corn have 

 attended to that duty, and respectfully submit the following 

 report : — 



