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result will be next year remains to be seen ; but I provided 

 for the pasture by applying ten dollars' worth of the grass 

 fertilizer to the acre, which, according to Professor Stock- 

 bridge, should produce a ton of grass to the acre for the next 

 crop. Whether it will do it or not, I do not know. That is 

 one of my experiments, and I shall watch it with interest, to 

 see the result. I am inclined to think now, the rye looks so 

 well, that if I keep the cattle off, I can get a good crop of rye 

 next year. 



These things I have done for my own edification, to know 

 whether I can apply these fertilizers and raise crops. I am 

 satisfied that a man can raise a crop of mangolds or carrots 

 or cabbages with these fertilizers, and can afford to buy them, 

 after he has exhausted his manure. I think nobody can afford 

 to lose a particle of barn-yard manure. I think every man 

 should husband all the resources he has, and then he will not 

 have enough. I do not suppose anybody in the Common- 

 wealth has any better facilities for making manure than we 

 have at the school, and we do not have half enough. We 

 cannot make half as much as we want, and would like the 

 privilege of buying as much as we make. W T e make four or 

 five hundred cords a year, and we use it all, and then, as I 

 say, we do not have half enough. We applied, last year, 

 eight hundred cart-bucks to our mowing land, and it takes a 

 great deal of the manure that we make for our crops. We 

 keep fifty cows and over one hundred hogs, and all the 

 manure they make goes to our grass crop. 



Now, I have tried this experiment, and I am satisfied from 

 the result this year, under these unfavorable circumstances 

 from drought, that you can afford to buy these fertilizers, and 

 that you will get a better remuneration than you can from 

 your barn-yard manure. 



Question. Have you ever tried the Brighton fertilizer? 



Dr. Wakefield. I tried that last year, and got good 

 results, but, I think, not as good as from the Stockbridge 

 fertilizers. 



Mr. Moore. Mr. Thomas E. Payson of Providence, R. I., 

 is here, and I thiuk this audience would like to hear from 

 him. 



Mr. Payson. I did not expect to be called upon to say 



