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such crops year after year with the same amount of fertilizer, 

 he can get his corn cheap ; but if Darling's will do as much 

 bettier for him as it did for Mr. Ware, he can grow it still 

 better with that. 



Mr. Appleton's experiment is the most interesting to me, 

 because the Stockbridge Fertilizer is brought in competition 

 with stable manure. Mr. Ware's experiment, combined with 

 Mr. Appleton's, shows me that I do not need either the 

 Stockbridge or Darling Fertilizer, for I can get all the good 

 barn cellar manure I think it good, economy to use on what 

 land I have, at $4 per cord, or less, including the cost of 

 putting it on the land. I get it by buying hay and grain, and 

 making milk and manure. Since the spring of 1874, I have 

 bought between three and four thousand dollars' worth of hay 

 and grain for making milk. I know the milk has paid for the 

 hay and grain, besides keeping the stock of cows good, and 

 that the labor of tending stock and manure will not amount 

 to more than $4 per cord for the manure, after it is spread 

 on the land. I have barn room enough for as many animals 

 as I have acres of land, and aready market at the door for 

 as much milk as I care to make. These are conditions which 

 few farmers have, but under these conditions I have no need 

 for chemicals. If Mr. Applcton had been able to get stable 

 manure for $4, instead of $10, the cost of manure and fertil- 

 izer would have been about equal, and the manure crop would 

 have been 22 1-4 bushels of ears more than the fertilizer crop. 



Admitting that the Darlino; Fertilizer would have done as 

 much better for Mr. Applcton as it did for Mr. Ware, the 

 manure crop would still have been ahead. The fertilizer 

 question is a very important one to the market gardener, who 

 has to buy all his manure, and experiments which determine 

 the relative value of chemicals to stable manure are very val- 

 uable to all who purchase manure. There is a valuable lesson 

 to onion growers in Mr. Daniel Carlton's plan of using barn 

 manure one year, and Cumberland Superphosphate the next, 



