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ped upon the hill after the first hoeing, and 100 lbs. of guano, 

 mixed with six bushels of leached ashes, applied in the same 

 manner after the second hoeing ; more was used at the third time. 

 The corn was dwarfish in appearance ; many of the stalks not 

 exceeding three feet in length, but with two good ears on them. 

 On that part dressed with compost, the yield was very superior. 



A part, intended for 2 acres, was ploughed in April, and 190 

 lbs. guano, mixed with 10 bushels of ashes, spread broad-cast 

 upon the furrow, harrowed, clover seed sown and brushed in, 

 oats drilled in at 12 inches. One extra cast was made with 

 the guano across the piece ; the oats and clover on this part 

 were very large, and the green color was more intense than on 

 any other part of the field, thus proving that I used but half the 

 quantity of guano requisite. The oats had no rain upon them 

 until about three weeks after they were drilled ; the consequence 

 was, a great part of the seed did not vegetate until four weeks 

 after they first made their appearance. A large part of this 

 plat lay upon a very poor side hill, crowned with high pines, 

 and upon the borders nothing could grow. Half an acre, as 

 supposed, but which proved, on measurement, to contain but 65 

 rods, was laid out for carrots, ploughed with the corn land. A 

 compost of 6 barrels of poudrette (see Note B), 5 bushels of 

 soot mixed with old tan and leaves (the contents of an old hot- 

 bed), measuring less than f of a cord, were ploughed in very 

 deep the last week in May, harrowed and brushed. One third 

 of a pound of carrot seed, prepared like the seed corn, was 

 drilled in by rows 12 inches by 24 inches, hoed three times and 

 thinned at the same time. By sowing in this manner, we can 

 use the cultivator between every pair of rows. 



An acute angle of the piece, called one quarter of an acre, 

 was ploughed in July, and 2 bbls. of poudrette, 1-| bushels of 

 salt, and 32 lbs. of guano and of proof harrowed in. Turnip 

 seed were drilled in the 26th July; although the weather was 

 unusually dry, most of the seed came up immediately and grew 

 finely. I sold from the piece 2£ bushels of turnips, on the 15th 

 September, and 3| bushels on the 22d September. On this 

 piece I set out turnips and beets in the spring for seed, the 

 *beets did not vegetate, and the turnips yielded no seed. 



