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manure was spread on the whole piece. It is my practice to 

 leave the tops on the land to be ploughed in. 



My experience agrees with that of Boussingault, that they 

 should only be given to cattle in cases of necessity. He states 

 that "it is generally much better to bury them in the ground 

 immediately after the crop is gathered. If they be very in- 

 different food, they are, on the contrary, excellent manure, 

 superior in quality even to the best farm dung;" also, that 

 the leaves of the beet from an acre of ground, are equal to 

 six or seven hundred weight of that manure in a state of dry- 

 ness ; but in another place he says that an acre produced 

 85 3-4 cwt. of green, and 9 3-4 of dry leaves. His average 

 crop is only 10 1-2 tons, probably about half what it is in 

 this country. 



Composition of Dry Leaves; — Carbon, 38.1; Hydrogen, 

 5.1; Oxygen, 30.8; Azote, 4.5; Salts and Earths, 21.5; 

 equaling 100.0. 



Dr. 



To seed 1 1-2 lbs., 



Ploughing and harrowing 2 1-4 days, 



Hidging and sowing 1 1-2 days, 



Weeding and thinning, 6 days, 



Barn manure, 3 cords, 



Hen manure, 3 bushels. 



Salt, 2 bushels, 



Harvesting, 5 days. 



Balance to credit, 



$108 75 



Cr. 



By 435 bushels Mangolds, at 25 cents per bushel, 



or 13 tons, ^ $108 75 



