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on the same land, and thereby growing premium onions every 

 year. 



It is safe to add that one reason wliy farmers need so much 

 is because they have let so much ruu to waste. My advice 

 to all is, to save all before buying any. 



Ansel W. Putnam, for the Oommittee. 



STATEMENT OF BENJAMIN P. WARE. 



The one acre of land upon which the following experiment 

 was tried, was ploughed up four years ago, having been in 

 grass for eight or nine years before, and was quite run out. 

 It has a gravelly subsoil, is level, and is what would general- 

 ly be considered good corn land. The first year after break- 

 ing up, it was manured with seven cords of good compost 

 manure per acre, and planted with squashes. The second 

 year it was manured as above and planted with potatoes. 

 The third vear it was manured with sufficient of Stockbridffe 

 Corn Fertilizer, purchased of W. H. Bowker & Co., as 

 would produce, according to his formula, seventy -five bushels 

 of corn per acre over and above the natural yield of the land 

 without any fertilizer, which I considered would be forty 

 bushels per acre, and the product was eighty-one bushels of 

 very sound shelled corn. 



The fourth and last season I divided the acre into two equal 

 parts, with no noticeable difference in the quality or location 

 of the land. After ploughing, I spread upon one half, which 

 I will designate as lot No. 1, 704 lbs. of Darling's Animal 

 Fertilizer, bought of Whittemore Bros., costing, with freight, 

 $15.08, and 40 lbs. of Muriate of Potash, costing $1.40, both 

 amounting to $16.48. On the other half, lot No. 2, I spread 

 three bags of Stockbridge's Corn Fertilizer, which, according 

 to his formula, was expected to produce at the rate of sixty 

 bushels per acre above the natural product of the land, cost- 

 ing, with freight, $17.25. 



The corn was planted with Ross & Co.'s corn planter, and 

 cultivated wholly with his cultivators, without any hand la- 

 bor, except pulling out a few scattering weeds that the culti- 



