The silo was filled with about seventy tons of corn and 

 Japan millet. From twenty to twenty-five cans of milk 

 have been produced per day for the year. 



The experiment for this year has been interesting and 

 valuable. The object of it was to show the practicability 

 and profit of the use of commercial fertilizers in compari- 

 son with common barn manure in the usual practice of the 

 average farmer. 



The experiment consisted of an acre of potatoes. On 

 one half was used one-half ton of Swift's high grade po- 

 tato fertilizer, and on the other half was applied three 

 and one-half cords of common barn manure, both sup- 

 posed to be of about equal commercial value when spread 

 on the land, all other conditions being the same. 



The part on which the fertilizer was used produced 137 

 bush, marketable potatoes, of much superior quality to 

 those grown on the manure, and 9 bush, second size, with 

 7 bush, of small ones. The part where the manure was 

 used produced 89 bush, marketable potatoes, 22 bush, 

 second size, and 18 bush, small ones. The one, 154 bush, 

 total ; the other, 129 bushels total, of much less value. 



This experiment, while not conducted with the exact 

 precision, perhaps, as might be at our experiment station, 

 yet sufficiently so to show that commercial fertilizers may 

 be used with decided profit and advantage on the usual 

 farm crops over that of barn manure. But, notwithstand- 

 ing which, your committee would caution farmers against 

 neglecting to make and save all the manure possible on 

 the farm. We note with pleasure the general thrift and 

 good conduct of the farm by Mr. Bradstreet. 



Respectfully submitted, 



Benjamin P. Ware, 



For the Committee. 



