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Shove, Peabody, tidy, gratuity, 50 cents; Miss Florence Low, 

 Salem, patch-work, gratuity, 50 cents ; A. Shirley Ladd, 

 Groveland, pincushion, gratuity, 50 cents. 



Mrs. Henry Harrington, Mrs. John C. Towne, Mrs. David 

 W. Low. — Committee. 



EXPERIMENTS WITH MANURES. 



The Committee on Manure attended to the only entry made, 

 and visited the onion bed of Mr. Horace F. Longfellow, of By- 

 field. Here we saw a fine crop of onions, large, both in size 

 and yield, that had been raised on phosphate only, applied at 

 the rate of one ton to tlie acre. The very interesting fact con- 

 nected with the experiment, is, that the same kind of manur- 

 ing has been followed, for five years in succession. The farm- 

 ing community are greatly indebted to Mr. Longfellow for this 

 experiment, let the result have been what it may, for it is very 

 rarely, that in this country, we have an opportunity to judge 

 of the etfect of commercial fertilizer that has been used con- 

 tinuous so long, on the same i)iece of ground, and it is a fair 

 inference that the stocic accumulated from the feedings from 

 other manure, has been fully exhausted, and the results to be 

 seen, are those obtained from the fertilizer only. In a letter, 

 accompanying the report, Mr. Longfellow informed me, that 

 on laud where phosphate only, was used as a fertilizer, he 

 had nearly 375 bushels of large potatoes to the acre. As 

 doubtless, the wise managers of our winter meetings will have 

 barn-yard manure and special fertilizers, up as one of the sub- 

 jects, I will not here present some experiments I have made, 

 this season, with various fertilizers. It will be wise here to 

 make a single comment on Mr. Longfellow's experiment. 

 Both potatoes and onions are potash loving crops, and yet, for 

 years, Mr. L. raised the latter without feeding any large pro- 



