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nearly double the crop produced by the same lands 

 last year. And one fact induces me to think, that 

 being spread on the ice, as above mentioned, a 

 portion of these ashes was washed away by the 

 Spring freshet. The fact from which I infer this, 

 is, that a run below, over which the water com- 

 ing from the meadow on which the largest part of 

 these ashes were spread flows, produced more than 

 double the quantity of hay, and that of a very supe- 

 rior quality to what had been ever known to grow on 

 the same land before. 



Seventy bushels of these ashes, together with a 

 quantity not exceeding thirty bushels of mixed coal 

 and wood ashes made by my kitchen and parlor 

 fires were mixed with my barn manure, derived from 

 one horse kept in stable the whole year, one other 

 horse kept in stable during the winter months, one 

 cow kept through the winter, and one pair of oxen 

 employed almost daily on the road and in the woods, 

 but fed in the barn one hundred days. This ma- 

 nure was never measured, but knowing how it was 

 made, by the droppings and litter or bedding of these 

 cattle, farmers can estimate the quantity with a good 

 degree of correctness. These ashes and this ma- 

 nure were mixed with a sufficient quantity of the mud 

 above mentioned by forking it over three times, to 

 manure three acres of corn and potatoes, in hills four 

 feet by about three feet apart, giving a good shovel 

 full to the hill. More than two thirds of this was 

 grass land, which produced last year about half a 

 ton of hay to the acre, broken up by the plough in 

 April. The remainder was cropped last year with- 



