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mixtures, will ordinarily bring new varieties as often as the 

 farmers can need or desire them. 



For the Committees on Improvements and Produce, 



MORRILL ALLEN. 



Compost Manure. 

 Jo7iaihan Howard 2d's Statement. 



I have made and carted on the farm, since last November, 3S0 

 loads of good manure ; LOO loads of it were composted by thor- 

 oughly incorporating 27 loads of muck with 73 loads of manure 

 taken from under the stable floors, consisting of loam, which 

 was deposited there two years ago, to absorb the liquid manure 

 that passed through the flooring. 250 loads of said manure 

 were composted in the barn-yard and hog-pen, about one half of 

 the principal materials of which consisted of good pond-hole 

 muck, and the remainder of soil, from the sides of fences, and 

 coal dust from the beds where charcoal had been made, toge- 

 ther with the droppings from animals. 



The muck, soil, &c., having been mingled in the yard, natu- 

 rally absorbed the liquid manure that passed from the stock. 

 yarded there : and, on each morning, in the warm season of the 

 year, the excrement dropped by the neat stock, was thrown in- 

 to a heap, and covered with a portion of the soil and dust in the 

 yard, thus protecting it from the sun and air, and retaining its 

 virtues. The remaining 30 loads consisted of turf ashes, made 

 by piling and burning turf. The stock of the farm consisted of 

 13 head of neat cattle, one horse, and four swine, through the 

 winter, but averaging about six swine through the season. 



West Bridgewater, Oct. 10, 1848. 



Orsaimis Littlejohri' s Statement. 



There is a place under my barn for cattle and hogs, thirty 

 feet square, by eight and a half feet deep, walled up on three 

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