120 



2 was raaimred with Brighton Abattoir fertilizer, of the same 

 cost. Lot No. 3 was manured with barnyard manure, at the 

 rate of eight cords per acre. Lot No. 4 had no manure at 

 all. All the above fertilizers were applied the first year with 

 nothing else. The product of the lots for each of the 

 years is as follows : — 



Lot No. 1, first year, 1510 lbs. Barley; second year, 400 

 lbs. Hay; third year, 130 lbs. Hay. Lot No. 2, first year, 

 overgrown with charlock ; second year, 1200 lbs. Hay ; third 

 year, 460 lbs. Eowen, 280 lbs. Hay. Lot No. 3, first year, 

 1890 lbs. Barley ; second year, 1300 lbs. Hay ; third year, 

 530 lbs. Rowen, 375 lbs. Hay. Lot No. 4, first year, 1310 

 lbs. Barley ; second year, 382 lbs. Hay ; third year, 75 lbs. 

 Hay. 



An experiment with the so-called Stockbridge Chemical 

 Fertilizer has been conducted on the farm during the last sea- 

 son, upon a piece of thin plain land that had not been ma- 

 nured for several years, — land that would probably not yield 

 over 20 or 25 bushels of corn per acre without manure. 



The formula for 50 bushels corn per acre in addition to the 

 natural production without any fertilizer, (which cost $27.00) 

 was applied to a part of the land, and on an adjoining part of 

 the same quality green barnyard manure Avas applied, at the 

 rate of five cords per acre. The part manured with barnyard 

 rnanure ripened someAvhat earlier, and when harvested the 

 stover was somewhat drier than the other part ; so that really 

 there was but very little difierence in the amount of stover 

 grown upon the different lots. One-quarter acre of that 

 grown with the. chemical formula produced 35 bushels of ears 

 at the rate of 70 bushels shelled corn per acre, and 1005 lbs. 

 stover. The quarter acre grown upon the barn manure, pro- 

 duced 45 bushels ears, at the rate of 90 bushels shelled corn 

 per acre, and 920 lbs. of stover. 



The total amount of products of the farm the last year, is 

 as follows : 



