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we can find any. Then there is a sand hill within thirty 

 rods. We put on three inches of sand ; and three inches of 

 sand over an acre means not far from four hundred cubic 

 yards. I have figured that as costing me twenty cents a 

 yard. Colonel Wilson tells me that contractors do it for 

 from twelve to fifteen cents, and railroads pay all the way 

 from forty to fifty cents. Of course this is being done at 

 odd jobs ; I cannot tell you what every particular cubic yard 

 costs to put it on the land, but I estimate it at about twenty 

 cents per cubic yard. That is a fair estimate, isn't it, Col- 

 onel Wilson? 



Colonel Wilson. Yes, sir, that is a fair estimate. 



Captain Moore. It is done with my own horses, when 

 they have nothing else to do ; the exercise they get at the 

 tip-cart is good for their health. I do not think the horses' 

 labor costs me anything ; still, I call it twenty cents for the 

 sand. That gives the cost of putting on the sand $80 an 

 acre. 



I don't want you to understand, because I say I have been 

 using fertilizers on this land, that I do not believe in any- 

 thing else, for I believe in using all the manure I can get, and 

 fertilizers in addition ; but this land being on the distant side 

 of the farm, it is more convenient and less expensive to put 

 fertilizers on it than to cart manure. I have applied eight 

 hundred pounds of super-phosphate to the acre, and seeded 

 it down about the first of May. That eight hundred pounds 

 of super-phosphate, delivered on the ground, has cost me 

 $15.20. I have called the labor of putting that on, the cost 

 of seed and harrowing it in, $5. There is nothing to do 

 to the ground, only to slightly harrow it and cover the seed 

 with a brush harrow. I do not use a roller, because mine 

 has given out, and I do not want to borrow, so the seed has 

 been brushed in with a brush harrow. You may think I am 

 telling a big story, but I have cut from an acre of that re- 

 claimed land a ton and a half of hay the first year. I would 

 not call it exactly rowen, but it was pretty good stufi" to 

 feed to cattle. There was a ton and a half to the acre, and 

 it was seeded last May. 



Question. What kind of phosphate did you use ? 



Captain Mooee. I am not advertising any particular 



