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that the result of these experiments should be laid 

 before them. The compost with which we planted 

 most of our corn and potatoes the present year, was 

 composed of the same materials, and managed in the 

 same manner as that which we used last year for the 

 same purpose. (See Essex Agricultural Transactions 

 for 1839, page 35.) 



Four acres of corn, on the same kind of soil, was 

 manured in the hill with this compost, and one acre 

 of corn on a more meagre portion of the same field, 

 was manured in the same manner, with a compost 

 consisting of the same kind of mud, half a cord of 

 manure taken from the pigsty, and forty pounds of 

 potash, second quality, dissolved in water, sprinkled 

 over and worked into the heap, with the fork, in the 

 same manner that the dry ashes were into the other 

 compost. Of both kinds the same quantity, a com- 

 mon iron or steel shovel full to the hill, was used, 

 and no difference in the crop which could be ascrib- 

 ed to the different manures, could be perceived. 

 The hills were four by three feet apart on an ave- 

 rage. In the borders and adjoining this piece of 

 corn, one acre was planted with potatoes. The 

 compost used on some portions of this consisted of 

 rather a larger portion of coarse barn manure com- 

 posed of meadow hay, corn fodder waste, &c., wet 

 with the urine and mixed with the droppings of cat- 

 tle, and less meadow mud. The whole six acres was 

 hoed twice only after the use of the cultivator. The 

 whole amount of labor after the ground was furrow- 

 ed and the compost prepared in heaps on the field, 

 is stated by the tiller of the ground, H. L. Gould, 

 to have been forty nine days' work, of one man, pre- 

 vious to the cutting of the stalks. Pumpkins, 

 squashes, and some beans were planted among the 

 corn. The produce was four hundred and sixty 

 bushel baskets of sound ears of corn, eighty -bushels 

 of potatoes, three cords of pumpkins, one and a half 

 bushels of white beans. On one acre of the better 

 part of the soil, harvested separately, there were 



