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was upon it. On one side of the field; within ten feet of the 

 line of the ploughed land, was a large, beautiful, magnificent 

 elm, which gave picturesqueness to the scenery, but did not 

 improve the corn-crop a bit. On this one-fifth of an acre, the 

 corn on about four or five rods on one side of the field, that was 

 completely under the influence of this tree, died, so that the ears 

 all hung down. He harvested it and weighed it accurately, 

 and, on my solicitation, reported what the result was. He 

 got, on that four-fifths of an acre, sixty-nine bushels of shelled 

 corn. He reports that he had more corn on this four-fifths of 

 an acre than on the best acre of that manured with the barn- 

 yard manure ; not the average, but more than on the best acre 

 that suffered least from the drought ; the average of his other 

 fields being less than sixty bushels to the acre. 



Question. How much did his fertilizer cost him ? 



Prof. Stockb ridge. He reports that, taking into account 

 the cost of fertilizers, tillage, and everything, that corn cost 

 him forty-four cents a bushel. 



Mr. Slade. Was not this piece better adapted to stand 

 the drought than his large fields that had manure? 



Prof. Stockbridge. The large fields stood the drought 

 better than this small piece. This muck land dried up and 

 suffered severely. It was like powder in the dry weather. 

 As my friend knows, muck land suffers more from drought 

 than sandy land. 



The next experiment to which I call your attention is one 

 where I know nothing whatever of the party or the section of 

 country. I cut it from the "Vermont Farmer." I do not 

 doubt that the gentleman referred to is an intelligent man ; I do 

 not say that his experiment was not fairly tried. Everything, 

 so far as the man is concerned, is all right, I have no doubt. 



" Stockbridge Fertilizers for Corn. — Col. John B. Mead of 

 Randolph, who applied ' Stockbridge fertilizers ' to one acre of his 

 corn-field in place of barn-yard manure, reports that the crop so fer- 

 tilized was a failure. While that portion of the field having barn- 

 yard manure gave a good yield, the corn on the ' Stockbridge ' acre 

 was very poor in quality and small in quantity. It was so evident 

 that the thing was a failure, that he did not consider it worth while to 

 measure the crop before condemning the chemicals as worthless for 

 raising corn." 



