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the remaining six rows I put a good shovel-ful of fine barn 

 cellar manure to each hill. On the same day I set the whole 

 piece to Fottler's Improved Brunswick Cabbage plants, two 

 and one-half by three feet apart. The plants all started fine- 

 ly, but those on the Potash soon went ahead, showing very 

 plainly that the Potash was better adapted to their wants than 

 either the Blood or the Barn cellar Manure, although they 

 were doing very well. The piece was cultivated and hoed 

 twice. 



On harvesting the crop, almost every plant grown on the 

 Potash had a large solid head, with but very few loose leaves. 

 Those grown on the Brighton Blood Fertilizer had done well, 

 about three-fourths having made good sized solid heads. 

 Those grown on the Cellar Manure had done very well, but 

 evidently needed longer time to form as solid heads as those 

 grown on the other two kinds of manure. 



On the next season, (1875,) I tried the same kind of ma- 

 nure on the same piece of land, but changed the crop to Po- 

 tatoes, using the manures in the same manner as on the pre- 

 vious year. Planted the Late Rose in the second week in 

 May. During the season they were cultivated and hoed twice. 

 The result was somewhat changed ; those on the Blood Fer- 

 tilizer taking the lead, followed by the Cellar Manure, — the 

 Potash evidently being too caustic, the vines not looking 

 thrifty. On digging, I found the crop a third larger on the 

 Blood Manure than on either of the other two ; the potatoes 

 were larger, fairer, and more in a hill. 



The experiment on Cabbages, in 1874, having been so 

 marked, to test it more fully, I again, in 1875, tried the same 

 kinds of manure, but on a heavier soil. The piece was broken 

 up about the 20th of July, and treated in the same manner 

 as that the year before. The plants were set on the 25th. 

 They started well, but were followed by very dry weather, so 

 that no part of the piece did as well as that the year before ; 

 still those on the Potash showed the best result. 



