ON EXPERIMENTS ON MANURES. 



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bushel, and nine cents worth of some other 

 follows : 



article, as 



No. 

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 5. 

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10. 

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14. 

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6 lbs. oil meal. 



1 bushel old leather chips. 



1 Do. new Do. 



6 lbs. fish — tainted halibut. 



6 qts. crushed bone. 



5 qts. salt — fisherman's waste. 



1^ lbs. nitrate of soda. 



5 qts ground gypsum. 

 12 qts. sucrar sediment, which is 



chiefly animal charcoal. 

 18 qts. ashes, wood and peat. 



5 qts. salt and lime, long mixed. 



1 lb. carbon-ammonia, not fresh. 



3 bushels of barn-cellar compost, 

 without muck. 



l.i bush, pure o.\' dung, " 

 h pure horse do. " 



No manure. " 



The following table shews the actual products, as ob- 

 tained by weight at the time of Harvesting, which was 

 in the latter part of October. 



Mr. Putnam based his calculation on the whole num- 

 ber of pounds obtained, without making any allowance 

 for difference of value. A pound of ruta baga, &c., 

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