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Note B. — Poudrette made by filling a hhd. or bbl. with dry- 

 peat, adding old fish brine and unleached ashes, and saturat- 

 ing with human urine. After the bbl. is saturated, it is headed 

 up and kept for use. I consider this as the cheapest and best 

 manure ever used, and suited to all kinds of soil. I have never 

 found it detrimental when used in large quantities. 



Statement of Daniel Merrick. 



I hereby present some account of my crop of wheat the pre- 

 sent year. My whole crop was 256 bushels. I had one acre 

 on which there had been no manure for more than 30 years, 

 and it had been tilled every year. Until about five or six years 

 ago it was rye and corn, year by year, in succession, and a 

 crop taken every year. Two years ago last spring, I sowed it 

 with clover seed upon the rye, for the first time within the 

 time above named. Then last summer one year, the last of 

 June, I mowed and took off the first crop of clover ; then let 

 the second crop grow until the last part of September, when I 

 ploughed it under and sowed it with wheat. This July, I 

 gathered the harvest, and, as near as I can calculate, there 

 were 25 or 26 bushels on this acre. The whole number of 

 acres that I had of wheat, was nine. Four produced 30 bush- 

 els each per acre, four about 28 bushels each, and the other 

 acre, above described, about 25 bushels. 



West Springfield, Dec. 1, 1845. 



Statement of Benjamin Willard. 



I offer the following statement of the manner in which I have 

 kept 4 cows, 4 yearlings, 30 sheep and a horse, five months, 

 from Dec. 1, 1844. By measurement of the hay on my scaffold, 

 I estimated it equal to 7 tons, and the straw of one acre of rye, 

 and the fodder of \ acre of corn, and 400 bushels English turn- 

 ips. My qiestion was, what amount of grain will be required 

 in addition, to carry them all through 1 After making a careful 

 estimate, I came to the following result: that 1 should need 100 



