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potatoes and about half as much increase of vines as the guano. 



In the corn field which you saw, I applied different kinds of 

 manure, but it was so much injured by the wire worms in the 

 first part of the season, that I cannot give any acurate state- 

 ment. But the guano, and the phosphate gave only about half 

 as much corn as the stable manure. That on the fish guano, 

 where it was not injured by the worms, did well. 



The manure on the field of ruta baga turnips, which you 

 saw, was prepared as follows : To three cords of meadow 

 muck, I added one cask of lime, twenty bushels of ashes and 

 four hundred pounds of ground bones. In the four first rows 

 we used the mixture at the rate of six cords to the acre. The 

 first row yielded twenty-two bushels, the next seventeen bush- 

 els. I account for this difference by the fact that the first got 

 some benefit from the manure upon the cucumbers that were 

 planted by the side. On the fifth row we put two-thirds of 

 the quantity of this mixture, and added twenty pounds of 

 Fales' fertilizer, costing three cents per pound. This produced 

 seventeen bushels. On part of the field, a compost made of 

 barn cellar manure and meadow muck was applied at the rate 

 of four cords per acre, and twenty pounds of Baugh's raw bone, 

 (this bone is prepared at Chicago) and costs three cents per 

 pound. Where this bone was added to the compost, the turn- 

 ips were the best in the field ; twenty pounds of this bone pro- 

 duced one hundred and fifty pounds of turnips. On ihis piece, 

 containing about two-thirds of an acre, we had three hundred 

 and thirty-seven bushels. 



If I had not already made this statement too long, I might 

 speak of the effects of different kinds of manure upon the 

 squash crop and the cabbage. 



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