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sixteen 3 T ears. I mowed it myself two years ago for the man who 

 then owned it, and it did not cut five hundred pounds of hay to 

 the acre. On one side of the field there was a row of trees along 

 the bank of the river, and, on account of the shade and main roots, 

 I lost most of the corn of twelve rows on that side. In just ninety 

 days I cut it up and stooked it. We husked one hundred and eight 

 baskets, which we called fifty-eight bushels of shelled corn. I have 

 shelled some of it, and it holds out four quarts more than a bushel 

 to the two bushels of ears, besides shrinkage. If it is possible for 

 me to do it, if I can get the money next spring, I intend to invest 

 more largely in this material. Geo. W. Osgood." 



Mr. H. C. Coinins of North Hadley, says : — 



" I used the chemicals this year, according to the Stockbridge 

 formulas, for corn, onions, and cabbages." [I think he did not 

 buy them already compounded, but he bought the chemicals and 

 compounded them himself.] " To one acre of good level land, 

 which had been under cultivation six years, I applied the materials 

 for sixty bushels of corn. The crop was seriously injured b}- drought 

 and smut, but I harvested ninet3 T -eight bushels of dry, sound corn, 

 allowing eighty pounds of ears for the bushel. On eight acres, I 

 applied the materials for fifty bushels of corn to the acre. One acre 

 of the eight was covered by an apple-orchard, which shaded the 

 land and destroyed the crop, and the whole field suffered by drought." 



He thinks the crop was diminished one-fifth by smut, but 

 he harvested fifty-four bushels of shelled corn to the acre, on 

 the same basis, eighty pounds of ears to the bushel. He 

 applied seventeen dollars' worth of this material to one hun- 

 dred rods for onions. The crop suffered both by the drought 

 and maggot. He harvested one hundred and twenty bushels 

 of onions, but considers the experiment a failure. He used 

 one formula for cabbage on an acre and a quarter of land, and 

 the results were highly satisfactory. The heads were large, 

 sound and heavy, and he proposes to try the experiment 

 again. 



Gentlemen, excuse me for reading this mass of stuff to you. 

 I felt it necessary to do it, that I might have a reason for 

 saying what I now desire to say. I never auticipated that 

 this material, compounded by anybody, or compounded by 

 each farmer on his own farm, could be. applied to the land, 

 and accomplish what some men have said that I predicted 



