^ 72 GREEN CROPS AS MANURE. 



ing of the seeds was rolled and ploughed in; a revolving cutter 

 was used to prevent clogging, and the old sward was so well rotted 

 that there was little difficulty in the operation of ploughing, and 

 the crop was thoroughly buried." 



Mr. King in a subsequent communication to your CoiniTfiiitse, 

 dated August 23, 1833, says, " In my communication address- 

 ed to the Committee of the last year, which has been transmit- 

 ted to you, I detailed my process of raising and ploughing in a 

 crop of buckwheat for manure, on an acre of land. The last 

 spring the ground was so well pulverized that it was ploughed with 

 facility, and after harrowing and furrowing it was planted with 

 Indian Corn, in hills, the same quantity and kind of manure be- 

 ing used, and the same method of cultivation pursued as in other 

 pieces of corn growing in the same field. 



The operations of planting and hoeing, on this experimental 

 acre, have been easier than on the other land which had not 

 been once planted, and the crop has better sustained the sever- 

 ity of the drought, to which all lands, in this vicinity, the present 

 summer, have been exposed. The ground will be as mellow, 

 and as weW prepared for laying down with grass seed as it is 

 commonly after planting for two years. I submit my experi- 

 ment for your consideration. On viewing the field (to which I 

 invite your attention) you will determine whether my process has 

 been in any degree satisfactory, and whether a green crop may, 

 under such circumstances be advantageously employed for 

 manure." 



Pursuant to the request, contained in Mr. King's last commu- 

 nication, your Committee on the 27th of August last, viewed 

 the ground upon which Mr. King's experiment had been made 



They found it remarkably well pulverized, and the growing 

 crop of corn thereon was in a much more promising and flour- 

 ishing state, and much better sustained the severity of the 

 drought, to which all lands in that vicinity were then exposed, 

 than the crops of corn which were then growing on the contigu- 

 ous ground of Mr. King, of a similar soil, and which had been 

 cultivated and manured in the ordinary manner. 



