160 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



Mr. William Birnie of Springfield tells me that he bought 

 $300 worth of this material, and the results were highly satis- 

 factory. He used $28 worth of it on an acre that would not 

 have produced fifty bushels of ears, and it produced one hun- 

 dred and seventy-five bushels of ears of sound corn. He 

 applied it to eight acres on a farm in West Springfield, and 

 had one of the finest fields of corn in that town. He applied 

 the chemicals to three acres for potatoes, but owing to bugs and 

 dry weather, they were a failure. 



N. Austin Smith of Sunderland reports that he purchased 

 and used the chemicals this year for the third year ; that all 

 the crops on the Stockbridge fertilizer promised well early in 

 the season, but suffered terribly by the drought. He does not 

 think any man in the town, who bought that or any other 

 manure, has got his money back in the price of crops. 



Chester Smith of Hadley says he purchased the fertilizer 

 for ten acres of land, two miles from the barn, to avoid draw- 

 ing manure that distance, and put the material on a piece of 

 clay loam land. He had a splendid crop of corn, although it 

 suffered severely by drought. He says he does not know why, 

 but it was altogether better than a piece of the same size 

 which he heavily manured with barn-yard manure. 



R. J. Hadaway of Thomasville, Thomas County, Ga., says, 

 under date of November 6 : — 



"I have this year used the Stockbridge formula for corn, and I am 

 able to report a favorable result. The crop was planted the 8th of 

 June, and had a long and severe drought to contend with ; but it gave 

 me forty-eight bushels of corn per acre. I am perfectly satisfied that 

 if it could have been planted in February or March, which is our 

 usual time of planting, it would have brought me seventy-five bushels 

 to the acre. I am so well satisfied with it, that I shall have more 

 next year." 



S. G. Hurd, Esq., of North Hadley, writes : — 



" I have used the chemical fertilizers this year on grass, corn and 

 tobacco, and in each case with as good results as the season would 

 allow. On three acres of light, sandy soil, I have harvested three 

 hundred and twelve bushels of ears of sound corn ; but I think the 

 smut and drought lessened this crop fifteen bushels per acre. On 

 one acre of moister land, which did not suffer so much by drought, I 



