86 ON EXPERIMENTS ON MANURES. 



and mildew the crop was very light, but not an entire 

 failure. The result was as follows : Lot 

 No. 1, Compost, waste soap and mud, 22 bush, per acre. 

 " 2, Green manure, 22 " " 



" 3, Compost, with salt, 241 " " 



" 4, Compost, without salt, 21 " " 



" 5, Bone, 21 " 



" 6, Poudrette, 20 " " 



The land where I last year used salt and lime, I this 

 year sowed with barley and there was no perceptible 

 difference in the crop. 



In the same field I sowed one acre and 75 rods with 

 winter rye, and spread on the same 14 bushels of 

 crushed bone which is about 10 bushels per acre. Also 

 at the same time, sowed 117 square rods without bone. 

 The land where I sowed bone produced 22 bushels of 

 rye, about 16i bushels per acre. The other part pro- 

 duced 8^ bushels, about 11^ bushels per acre. Ex- 

 pense of bone, with freight, about 40 cents per bushel. 



Last spring I mixed a heap of compost manure, three 

 parts peat mud, and one part manure from the cellar, 

 with which was mixed one cask of lime to 7 cart loads 

 of compost; when it began to ferment, I pitched it over, 

 let it remain a few days, and pitched it over again and 

 covered the heap with mud. I then (on a piece of land 

 that was broke up last September,) measured off 3 lots 

 4 rods long, and one rod wide, and manured them as 

 follows : 



Lot No. 1 , one cart load of the above named compost. 

 " 2, one cart load green manure from barn cellar. 

 " 3, two cart loads peat mud. 

 Then spread and plowed in the manure, harrowed it 

 and planted it with 3 rows of potatoes, and 2 rows of 

 corn to each lot. 



On harvesting the crop the result was as follows per 

 acre. 



Lot No. 1, Corn, 81 bushels — Potatoes 333 bushels. 

 " 2, " 681 " " 353 " 



3, " 50" " " 203 " 



Also on one square rod I sowed half bushel of crush- 



