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upon the farm, give it a very neat and thrifty appearance ; 

 excelled in that particular by very few farms in the County, 



It may be interesting to those who have followed the three 

 years' experiment that closed last year, to know that lot No. 

 1, which was fertilized three years ago with Russell Coe's Su- 

 perphosphate, showed little or no effect from it this year ; 

 the growth of grass being about the same as on lot No. 4, 

 where no fertilizer was used. Crop not worth mention. 

 Lot No. 2, that was fertilized with Brighton Abattoir Fertili- 

 zer, compared favorably with lot No. 3, which had an appli- 

 cation of barn-yard manure. 



The growth of grass was fair, showing unmistakably the 

 effects of the application made three years ago. 



This year 67 1-4 cords of barn-yard manure, and $115.50 

 worth of Stockbridge Fertilizer have been applied to the farm. 



The products of the farm were : 20 barrels of apples, 9 

 bushels cranberries, 225 bushels of potatoes, 415 bushels of 

 mangolds, 250 bushels of carrots, 265 bushels of turnips, 20 

 bushels of green peas, 3 1-2 bushels of beans, 20 bushels of 

 onions, 850 bushels of corn in the ear, 44,084 cucumbers, 

 4560 cabbages, three cartloads of pumpkins, 12 tons of Eng- 

 lish hay, 20 tons of meadow hay, 5 tons Hungarian hay. 



An experiment with Stockbridge Fertilizer was tried upon 

 five acres of very thin poor pine plainland, that had not been 

 manured for very many years, and had not virtue enough to 

 support a sod of any kind before ploughing, which was done 

 in the autumn of 1865, and sown with winter rye. It pro- 

 duced but a very small growth of rye last year, showing how 

 very poor the land was. Stockbridge's formula for corn fer- 

 tilizer sufficient to produce fifty bushels of corn per acre, was 

 api^lied to the five acres, and to two of the five one bag per 

 acre in addition was used in the hill, which seemed to increase 

 the crop fully one third. The product of the whole five acres 

 was 420 bushels of ears of corn. 



Benjamin P. Ware, for the Committee. 



