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and in some cases quadrupling, the quantity of manure, without 

 detracting much if any tiling from its quality. 



J. A. Nash. 



Statement of Kelita Hubbard. 



I have tried several methods of composting manures, with 

 swamp muck, by mixing it with barn-yard manure, ashes, plas- 

 ter, &c v and I find it profitable. But on my swamp I have a 

 large quantity of sage bogs, which I have found very difficult 

 to work into manure, and had considered them worthless un- 

 til I commenced throwing them into my hog pen. I have found, 

 for three or four months in a year, the hogs would work them 

 to pieces, and make some of my best and cheapest manure. 

 My practice is to commence about the first of August, and cart 

 them green to my hogpen, throwing in daily as many as they 

 will work up. I have eight shotes, which will usually demolish 

 a cart buck full in two days, varying according to circumstances 

 of feed, state of the bogs, &c. 



These shotes make manure in three or four months 



worth $35 00 



Cost of getting the bogs, above the benefit hogs re- 

 ceive from eating the roots, of which they are 

 very fond, . . ' 5 00 



Net gain, annually, $30 00 



Sunderland, October 18, 1854. 



Statement of Avery D. Hubbard. 



The question is often asked, " How can we take a crop from 

 our land every year, and keep it as good as when we com- 

 menced?" And "How shall we obtain a good crop and im- 

 prove our land ? " is a still harder question to answer. I have 

 become satisfied that the way in which most land is managed, 

 after taking off a crop of grain in the summer, does not tend 

 to improve it. Most land that is to be cultivated the next 

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