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that usually comes with this manure. The next season I 

 under-drained the moister portion of the land, and applied a 

 strong compost, at rate of six cords per acre, of stable manure, 

 glue manure, coarse fish refuse, and rock weed, with sufficient 

 soil mixed in the mass to absorb the liquid. The result was a 

 large crop of potatoes and three-fourths of the crop rotten. 1 

 attributed this to the strength given to the manure by the fish 

 refuse. The present season, early in May, the ground was 

 manured with a compost of rock weed, stable manure and fish, 

 at the rate of five cords to the acre, all finely distributed by 

 Kemp's manure spreader — an invaluable implement for all 

 large tillage areas. The fish used in the compost was halibut 

 chum, which differs from porgy chum in being much richer in 

 phosphates and about proportionally poorer in nitrogen. This 

 manure was ploughed under four or five inches deep, and after 

 a second ploughing two hundred pounds of Lobos guano was 

 raked in the bed and seed of the Early Red Globe onion 

 planted, at the rate of four pounds to the acre. Just before 

 the onion began to bottom, 250 pounds of rectified guano was 

 raked in. The crop received the usual attention, though the 

 soil being remarkably free from weeds, the cost in this direc- 

 tion was very light. 



The onions were large and well ripened with small necks. 

 All were measured as gathered and stored. The yield on the 

 half acre, at 52 pounds to the bushel, was four hundred and 

 four bushels. The cost of raising it was as follows : — 

 Ploughing twice, $4.00 



Manure and spreading of same (2^ cords), . 20.00 



Lobos and rectified guano, 200 to 250 lbs., 14.00 



Seed, 10.00 



Sliding and weeding, three times, 12.00 



Interest on land, 2.00 



Gathering crop (October), 12.00 



Topping, 12.00 



$86.00 



