46 ON EXPERIMENTS ON MANURES. 



ALLEN PUTNAM'S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on Compost Manures : 



Gentlemen — I propose to give you a statement of the 

 amount of compost applied on my small farm of forty 

 acres, and of the quantity now prepared for use. As to 

 premium, I have no desire to have you feel the slightest 

 obligation to give any, unless the rules under which you 

 act shall require you to recommend one. 



It is known to some of your number, that I purchased 

 my farm in the autumn of 1839, and that in the spring of 

 1840 I moved and repaired all the buildings on the place. 

 Operations on the farm were commenced April lst,1841, 

 with one hired man, and one yoke of oxen. In May, I 

 purchased g 10.50 worth of cow manure, 16 bushels of 

 ground bones for ^6, 5 bbls of poudrette ^10, and 1200 

 galls, spent or salt ley #4, making in all ,^30.50. These 

 articles, excepting the poudrette, mixed in very varied 

 proportions with rotting hay and muck found in the old 

 barn and hog yard, and with soil from under and around 

 the old buildings, furnished 58 loads of compost, which 

 were applied to the land in the spring and early summer. 

 Dung, with the articles around the old buildings, 20 loads. 

 Salt ley, with " " 27 " 



Salt ley and bone, " " 4 " 



Ashes and manure, *' " 2 " 



Salt ley and dung, " " 5 " 



Besides the above, I used thirty loads of the 

 materials from around the old buildings, un- 

 mixed. Also, 2 loads of ox manure, 5 barrels 

 of poudrette, about 120 lbs of nitrate of soda, 

 and one bushel of common salt, equal to 33 

 loads. In August, 1 spread unmixed 100 bush- 

 els of barilla ashes upon low grass lands, 3 

 loads. In September, 1 spread 100 bushels of 

 barilla, mixed with soil upon land that I was 

 then seeding to grass — compost, - 6 " 



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