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meadow was flooded by the heavy rains in June, the 

 crop has been two hundred bushels to the acre. Cab- 

 bages and beets have also done well. After securing 

 the crop of potatoes, I have taken off* the loose toppings 

 and used them for compost. The quantity removed is 

 not far from sixty cords to the acre. The toughest and 

 most rooty sods I have burned on the meadow, and 

 spread the ashes, but the ashes so applied, have not 

 equalled my expectations. After removing the sods, 

 the surface was levelled with rakes, and winter rye and 

 grass seed sown, This was on the sixteenth of No- 

 vember. Early in the spring, I spread on the meadow 

 w^oolen waste from a carpet factory, and on a part of it, 

 a compost of hen manure and loam. The latter produ- 

 ced a most luxuriant growth. The rye w^as partly win- 

 ter killed, but what survived was rank and heavy. 

 After reaping the rye, more than thirty hundred to the- 

 acre of grass and stubble was mowed, and another crop 

 might have been made, but I preferred to feed it off*. 



The present season I have treated two parcels in the 

 same manner except that 1 have sown foul meadow 

 with the herds grass and red top, and I have not 

 sown rye, for I find that ordinarily the grass will be 

 forward enough to mow the summer after sowing in the 

 fall. I had doubts of the expediency of sowing so late 

 as November, but my success has encouraged me to re- 

 peat the experiment. I have a compost of loam and 

 stable manure, which I intend to spread on my reclaim- 

 ed meadows. I consider them the most profitable land 

 for grass, and the toppings removed afford a rich con- 

 tribution to the barn yard, pig pen, and compost heap. 



The quantity of land on which I have made experi- 

 ments, exceeds three acres. 



Respectfully submitted, DANIEL P. KING. 



Dan vers, Nov. 1, 1842. 



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