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I have used the meadow muck with very satisfactory results on 

 my dryest land, and never have applied it (after removing the 

 acidity by lime or exposure to the atmosphere) without being 

 favorably impressed of its utility on land of sandy loam, ap- 

 plied with or without other fertilizing matter. I have endeav- 

 ored to make manure in every possible way by giving swine a 

 good share of loam and muck, and helping them turn it over 

 with a fork. In this way I make three parcels in the year. 

 The same operation is gone through with in cattle yards, and 

 before winter sets in I have as much muck in the barn cellar 

 as will absorb all the moisture of the droppings, and no more 

 — as I find it lost time to cart in and out more than is wanted 

 for that purpose. As the cellar does not freeze, the manure is 

 worked over in stormy weather ; and I find that with what is 

 made by the house vault, the hens, and in all other ways, I have 

 pretty large piles in the spring. I have seen good effects from 

 guano and other concentrated manures when fortunate in the 

 application of them just before a shower. I have this year 

 one man and boy eight months, and one for the year, with ad- 

 ditional help in haying time, and a few days at other times. 



Groton, September, 1851. 



Statement of Robert Murray, 



TOR MISS S. GREENE. 



TJiis farm has been in the charge of the subscriber since the 

 year 1835. For convenience' sake, therefore, the report is 

 made in my name in behalf of Miss Greene, the proprietor. 



The farm consists of one hundred and thirty acres. In 1835, 

 the first year I was upon the place, we cut not over three small 

 horse cartloads of very poor hay. No part of the farm was then 

 under cultivation except, of course, that part of the land ap- 

 propriated to the garden. There was no farm barn upon the 

 place, and no necessity for any. All the hay we cut was put 

 in one corner of the carriage house, and there was plenty of 

 room for it. In 1836 we built a barn sixty feet square. Since 

 that time we have added one hundred and ten feet of barn, with 

 cellar under the whole, besides two corn barns, and other build- 



