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quart of milk.* For store swine they are worth at 

 least half as much as potatoes. Apples will continue 

 to be worth cultivating, even when all shall have 

 ceased to stupify the brain and sour the disposition 

 by the use of cider ; yes, even in the temperate times 

 when the Trustees of this Society shall cease to offer 

 a premium upon the best sample of an article that 

 wars against the domestic enjoyments and thrift of 

 many an Essex Farmer. 



Manures — the means and methods of increasing 

 and compounding them ; the particular soils and crops 

 to which each kind is best adapted ; in what state 

 and at what seasons they should be applied; these all 

 claim our careful attention and close study. Knowl- 

 edge of these is the main-spring of improvement and 

 success in husbandry. Attempting to farm without 

 manure, is like setting up to be a gentleman of 

 leisure and fashion without money. The thing wont 

 go. The proper construction of yards for cattle and 

 swine ; the advantages of a cellar under the barn ; 

 the more common means of increasing the manure 

 heap ; I have no time for considering. Important as 

 brevity is, however, the claims of muck to our regard 

 must not be passed over in silence. Many of our 

 swamps and meadows consist of an invaluable col- 

 lection of decomposed vegetable matter. This by a 

 few months exposure to the atmosphere becomes an 

 excellent material for making most valuable com- 

 posts. I am persuaded that its worth, and the best 



* This experiment, I am led to suppose, was not made with so much exactness 

 as here described ; but the experimentor was satisfied that the apples produced as 

 much milk, as stated above. — Dec. 16, 1839. 



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