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ON EXPERIMENTS ON MANURES. 



also, hauled in mud as seemed necessary. Hauled it 

 out the first of December, and covered the heaps with 

 mud. In the spring, put on about seventy-five bushels 

 of wood ashes, and pitched it over three times. Also, 

 with a portion of it, mixed a peck of salt to a load. On 

 moving it, I found there were about two loads. 



Lot No. 4, one cart load of the above compost, with- 

 out salt. No. 5, two bushels of bone; No. 6, two bush- 

 els of poudrette. I then carefully spread all the ma- 

 nure, bone and poudrette, and -harrowed it in. On the 

 20th of May I furrowed it three feet and four inches 

 apart, making 125 hills on each lot. Planted it with 

 Hartwell corn. It came up well, as there was but one 

 hill missing on all the lots. That was on lot No. 1. 



On the 27th of September I gathered it, and the re- 

 sult was as follows : 



Lot No 



RecJionad 70 -pounds to the bushel. 

 Ears. Pounds. 



53i|- bushels per acre. 



In the same field I tried another experiment on ruta 

 bagas — manure in the hill. 



Compost, soap and mud, 20 loads to the acre. 

 Bone, 50 bushels to the acre. 

 Poudrette, 50 " " " " 

 Green manure, 20 loads. *' 

 Compost, as above, 20 " 

 The turnips on the green manure came up thinly, but 

 they were very large. Bone, poudrette, and compost,, 

 made of mud and manure, nearly the same. Those ma- 

 nured with soap and mud, about twenty-five per cent. 

 less. In another place in the same field I spread a cask 

 of lime (slacked dry) on to the grass on twelve square 

 rods, and ploughed it in; also, one bushel of salt on five 

 square rods, and ploughed it in. I then manured it 

 with compost, the same as the other parts of the field; 

 planted it, part with corn and part with potatoes. 



