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growiag^ crop, and the yield of potatoes was no more where 

 the meal was used than Where it was not. Yield about 180 

 bushels per acre. 



Second piece. The land was similar and adjoining the 

 first ; no manure spread ; the bone meal put in the hills in 

 nearly the same quantity ; the hills about three and one-half 

 feet apart each way. Planted it with corn on the 10th of 

 May ; it came up well but failed to grow, except one strip 

 about a rod wide, on which dry wood ashes were spread the 

 spring before. This strip produced pretty fair corn. 



Third. Ploughed the ground, on which the grass was 

 mostly killed out, July 25th ; harrowed and furrowed, and 

 put compost in all the rows except one — in that put pond 

 muck, mixed with half a bushel of bone meal. The rows 

 were nearly eight rods long. Planted it with round turnips. 

 The produce of the row where the bone meal was put was 

 about the same as the others. I cannot see as yet that I have 

 received the least benefit from the bone meal thus applied. 



TREADWELL FARM. 



At a meeting of the Committee on the Treadwell Farm, 

 held last March, it was voted that the care of the farm should 

 be delegated to a Sub-Committe for one year, and also to lease 

 it, according to the following terms : 



Time, seven years from April Ist, 1866; rent two hun- 

 dred and fifty dollars per annum ; to apply to the land each 

 year, at least fifty cords of good merchantable manure and 

 two hundred loads of muck ; to keep all fences in good re- 

 pair, and cultivate the farm in all respects in a good, husband- 

 like manner ; reserving to the Society full right and power to 

 enter upon the premises at all times by themselves, or by a 



