MANURES. 133 



retentive of manures. The crop of 1859 was grass. No 

 manure has been applied during three years previous to 

 1860. It was first ploughed about seven inches deep, on the 

 12th of May, after a fine growth of grass had started, which 

 was turned under with a swivel-plough. Five cords of stable 

 manure from a barn cellar, made with horses, cows, and hogs, 

 one cord by accurate measure to each lot, 500 pounds Coe's 

 ground bone, 100 pounds to each lot, and 250 pounds Coe's 

 super-phosphate of lime, 50 pounds to each lot was applied, and 

 the field planted. May 23d, with common yellow corn, with a 

 corn planter, in rows three feet three inches apart each way. 

 It was cultivated with a horse-hoe four times each way, and 

 with a hand-hoe twice, and harvested, Nos. 2, 3, 4, and 5, 

 October 29th, and Nos. 1 and 6 November 5th, and the whole 

 l^roduct of each plot weighed as follows, viz, : — 



No. 1 produced 879 lbs. sound ears corn, 11 lbs. soft, and 1,100 lbs. stover. 



2 " 785 « " 26 " 1,034 " 



3 " 851 « « 22 " 1,092 « 



4 « 819 " " 21 " 954 " 



5 « 349 " « 54 " 354 « 



6 " 859 " « 00 " 958 " 



The weather was as follows, viz. : — 



May, first third, dry ; middle third, very dry ; last third, moist. 

 June, " wet ; " moist ; " wet. 



July, " very wet ; " wet ; " wet. 



Aug., " moist ; " wet ; " moist. 



Sept., " moist; " wet; " wet. 



Having entertained the belief that the thorough intermixture 

 of manure with the soil to the depth to whicli it is cultivated 

 would prove most beneficial, I added another plot to those re- 

 quired. No. 6, similar in all respects to the others, and applied 

 to it the same kind and quantity of fertilizers, as to the others, 

 spreading one-third of the manure and bone on the grass before 

 the first ploughing, one-third after the first and previous to the 

 second or cross ploughing, and one-third after the cross plough- 

 ing before harrowing ; the super-phosphate of lime I applied to 

 the hills after the corn was planted. This plot took an earlier 



