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tures ? Should science and experience give the ex- 

 pected answers to questions of this kind, we have, 

 within convenient reach, abundant materials for en- 

 hancing the productiveness of our lands. A farmer 

 in the northern part of the county, informed me re- 

 cently, that a thin coating of loam, upon wet meadow 

 lands, has caused the growth of two tons of good 

 English hay to the acre annually, for five or six suc- 

 cessive years. No manure has ever been applied. 

 Facts like this command us to give more attention 

 than has been customary, to the mixture of soils. 



The application of manures in a liquid state, so 

 highly approved in Europe, should not remain long 

 untried by us. 



Observation satisfies me, that in soils not cold, un- 

 fermented manure, though less active than fermented 

 in the early part of the season, will be found the 

 most serviceable at the time when our crops need 

 their greatest supply of nourishment. I have seen 

 the two kinds tried repeatedly upon turnips sowed in 

 August. In September, the plants upon the older 

 and finer manure are far in advance of the others, 

 but in November the tables are turned. The yield 

 will average twenty-five per cent, more where the 

 manure is applied in its green state. Corn, too, 

 though more yellow upon this in June, will show as 

 much yellow, I think more above the husks, in Sep- 

 tember. 



Bone manure, last season, did pretty well. In all 

 the operations I have aided to make with it the pres- 

 ent year, it has been so mixed up with other ingredi- 

 ents that it is impossible to judge of its efficacy. The 



