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sides, and cost thirty-five dollars. Into this place every refuse 

 vegetable thing the premises afford is placed, to save the liquids 

 from sinking, and the gases from rising. This becomes very 

 rich and juicy, but not rotten, and amounts to about 100 loads 

 annually. 



My soils being very sandy and hungry, this place is cleaned 

 out in the fall and spring, to make composts for them. I first 

 put down a laying of mud, that was shovelled up the year be- 

 fore; I wet this smartly with soap suds, brine, ashes and water 

 mixed, or some such thing, saved, made, or procured for the 

 purpose ; on the top of this, about one third as much manure is 

 put lightly ; above this green turf, from under wooden fences. 

 and wet over : next, manure : next, quick-sand, clay or stiff" 

 loam, with burnt oyster-shells, ashes or lime, wet over as before ; 

 next, manure, and covered with charcoal dust and fine mud. 

 In warm weather, it ferments rapidly, and is cut over in three 

 or four weeks, and covered as before. 



In this way, with not more than ten head of cattle and hogs, 

 and twenty dollars' worth of materials purchased, with some 

 loads of night soil, had for carting away, I have made, the past 

 year, 300 loads of compost, of 40 feet each, of excellent quality, 

 free from worms and weeds. 



I have made several barrels of other compost, for potatoes and 

 vines of all sorts, which has given full satisfaction. It contained 

 about equal parts of charcoal dust, urine, hen dung, salt, lime, 

 plaster and ashes. 



The above manure cost twenty-two cents per load, every item 

 being charged that the farm did not produce. 



MiDDLEBOROUGH, Oct. 11. 1848. 



Chipman Pointer's Statement 



In the fall of 1847, I carted into my yard, muck, soil, decayed 

 leaves and vegetables, from the woods. On this I yarded my 

 cattle. I commenced ploughing my yard in May, and have 

 ploughed it a number of times during the summer. I have kept 



