methods in all departments of husbandry. Before scientific 

 agricalture can rise to a point worthy ro command confidence 

 and respect, this most be done. 



In behalf of the Committee — James R. Nichols. 



STATEMENT OF WAI. E. PriXA^L 



It is with some reluctance that I make public my experi- 

 ments with manures. I regret that my crops were not seen bv 

 the Committee earlier in the season ; coming as you did, just 

 after the severe gale, you had not so good an opportunity to 

 judge of the effects of different kinds of manure as yoa would 

 hare had before the gale. 



If I rightly understand the object of the Society, in offering 

 this premium, it is to collect and publish such information upon 

 the use and the effects of different kinds of manure, as will en- 

 able the farmers of the county to judge better what kinds of 

 manure to use. If ::i niy statements I can furnish a peg for 

 you to hang your report on, I shall be satisfied. 



Early in April last, when planting peas, part of the piece 

 was manured with good manure made by the horses, cows and 

 sheep, applied at the rate of six cords to the acre ; to the re- 

 mainder I applied Croasdale's Superphosphate at the rate of 

 four hundred pounds to the acre, — this costs about three cents 

 per pound, and it is said that it is one third Peruvian Guano, 

 and the remainder mostly mineral phosphate from South Caro- 

 lina. The peas were as early and produced as well as those 

 that were planted upon the manure. 



Some of the farmers in this vicinity have been using pine 

 sawdust from the saw mills for bedding for their stock. Does 

 it injure the manure ? is a question that I should like to see 

 settled by a course of well conducted experiments. Last Feb- 

 ruary I spread about ten bushels of sawdust that had been 

 partially dried, on the fioor of my sheep i)€n, then covered it 

 well with hav so that the manure would not mix with it, the 



