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dressing of fine manure, and about sixty gallons of water, 

 and I continued to water it through the season, using about 

 eighty gallons of water per week. 



I gave the rod between June 21 and September 10, two 

 days before the last (the third) crop was cut, fifteen pounds 

 of guano dissolved, half a bushel hen manure dissolved, one 

 peck of soot dissolved, two pounds of saltpetre, four quarts 

 of air-slacked lime, four quarts of plaster and one quart of 

 ammonia. 



The hen manure and guano were dissolved together, and 

 were used once a week, with a large amount of water ; the 

 saltpetre and ammonia were used each once a week. The 

 soot, lime and plaster were all used at the same time, and 

 but once, two days after the first crop was cut. 



The committee reported to me that the — 



First crop (after being dried to their satisfaction) weighed, 47^ pounds. 



Second crop weighed (dry), 454, " 



Third " " " 57 " 



Total, . 149| pounds. 



The above is the result of the sample rod, and I have no 

 means of telling the exact amount grown on the whole half- 

 acre. At the first cutting the rod was a fair sample of the 

 half- acre ; the second and third cuttings were not, but were 

 forced for the purpose of seeing what amount could be raised 

 from a rod. The half-acre was not surveyed, because there 

 was an acre so nearly the same yield that the committee did 

 not deem it necessary. 



