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same manner, on the same day, and the corn planted the same 

 day. The fields were side by side, and the soil a light sandy 

 loam. The yield of that acre was twenty-nine barrels, — weight, 

 2,713 pounds. He says the fodder was about the same as on 

 the other field. He had another acre of corn planted with 

 manure. He says he has not husked that, and is unable to 

 give the amount. He goes on to say : "I think I should have 

 had more corn on Foote's fertilizer than I had on the Stock- 

 bridge, only the trouble that we ran against was, that we put 

 too much in a hill, and a great many hills were missing ; did 

 not come up." 



Now, I find on looking that over and calling seventy pounds 

 of ears a bushel, that on the Stockbridge fertilizer he got 

 forty-two bushels, where he ought to have had fifty bushels, 

 besides the natural yield of the laud ; on Foote's fertilizer he 

 got 38§ bushels. The Stockbridge fertilizer, mark you, cost 

 him $7.88 more than Foote's, and on Foote's there was 3^ 

 bushels less corn than on the Stockbridge ; so that Foote's 

 fertilizer would certainly be cheaper than the Stockbridge in 

 that instance. That is only one instance, and perhaps the 

 two fertilizers would not always show the same result. 



Question. How deep was your land ploughed ? 



Mr. Moore. I presume the piece was ploughed as deep as 

 ten inches. I do not ordinarily plough so deep as that. I do 

 not believe you gain much, if you waut to raise the greatest 

 crops, by ploughing very deep. I will say that most of my 

 land has been ploughed pretty deep. I had very deep plough- 

 ing on the brain at one time. I have got over that. 



Question. Was your land greensward, and did you apply 

 the manure in the spring or fall ? 



Mr. Moore. The raw manure was applied in the spring. 

 It was old land that had been stocked with something else. 



Mr. Ellsworth. What kind of manure was it? 



Mr. Moore. It was raw manure from my cows, and some 

 hog manure with it. I would like to add one thing in regard 

 to barn-yard manure. Its whole value does not lie, perhaps, 

 in the nitrogen, phosphoric acid and potash which it contains. 

 Its mechanical effect upon the land is worth a good deal. 

 For instance, Mr. Hill, one of the best market gardeners in 

 Arlington, who is in the hall somewhere, would tell you that 



