ON GREEN CROPS AS A MANURE. 41 



to water grass lands and grain crops, a large cask or 

 casks placed on wheels and drawn by oxen or horse 

 power, the liquor from the casks being at pleasure 

 let into a long narrow box perforated with numerous 

 small holes, which would spread the same over a 

 strip of ground, some 6, 8, or 10 feet in breadth, as it 

 is drawn over the field in the same manner as the 

 streets in cities are watered in summer. 



Andrew Nichols. 



1 certify that I measured the piece of land men- 

 tioned in the foregoing statement, as planted with 

 corn, on the 21st of September, 1839, and found the 

 same to contain two acres, three quarters, thirty-one 

 rods. John W. Proctor, Surveyor. 



ON TURNING IN GREEN CROPS AS A 

 MANURE. 



The Committee on the subject of turning in Green 

 Crops as a Manure, Report : 



That they have examined Mr. Keely's communica- 

 tion, and are of opinion that his experiment is not 

 such, as to entitle him to the Society's first premium, 

 inasmuch as the plants turned in, are not the most 

 succulent for the purpose of enriching the soil ; also, 

 because the experiment was extended only to a single 

 year, without reference to the future improvement of 

 the soil. 



The Committee are of opinion, that a part of the 

 field should have been manured in the usual way, in 



