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[NOTE A. 



Dr. Nichols has kindly sent me the proof sheets of 

 his version of my statement, and permitted me to sup-* 

 ply an omission, occasioned by a loss of a portion of my 

 manuscript. 



My experiments with poudrette, in past years, have 

 led me to regard it as convenient and good for forcing 

 early vegetables, but not worth its cost for common 

 field culture. 



The accounts of salt ley upon my corn and ruta baga 

 crops, will be seen in the appropriate statements. 

 Where used as a top-dressing on grass lands, the effect 

 was good, there having been apparently an increase, 

 above the last year's crop, of 70 or 80 per cent. Part 

 of the increase was perhaps owing to the better season. 

 The quantity applied was about 600 gallons of ley, in 

 three cords of soil per acre. 



The version of my statement as given by the commit- 

 tee, is less satisfactory to me than my own account, but 

 I am not disposed to complain. I must, however say, 

 that the rule, page 82, for finding the exact action of 

 the several manures, leads to less favorable results than 

 were obtained. The fault may arise from the obscurity 

 of my own manuscript; but whether so or not, I do not 

 subscribe to the committee's deductions as correct. 

 There is so much difficulty in making qualifications, by 

 estimation, for the difference in soil, that I much prefer 

 the statement in the New England Farmer, No. 20, Vol. 

 XXI, to the account here given. I feel persuaded that 

 the unqualified results published in the Farmer, are 

 more correct guides than the qualified ones in these 

 pages. 



Had the committee seen the quality of my corn, and 

 of the potatoes on many of the lots, they would have 

 made much less difference in the value per lb. than they 

 do. 



Were I attempting to find the value of the action of 

 the manure on lot No, 1, I should look first to lot No. 

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