108 ON EXPERIMENTS ON MANURES. 



There are few farms in the county, the crops of which may 

 not be doubled by the application of manure. Farmers all ad- 

 mit this ; but then, say they, we cannot afford to pay the price 

 that is demanded for manure. 



Let them go to work in earnest and form their compost 

 heaps ; first cover a space sixteen by twenty feet with meadow 

 sods one foot high ; leave this to the action of the sun for a 

 month or two ; then saturate it with a hogshead or two of lye, 

 spread six inches of stable manure on the top of this, and 

 cover it with potato vines, chip manure, weeds, or meadow 

 mud, saturate this as before with lye, next a layer of stable 

 manure, and so on, till the heap is seven or eight feet high. 

 Let it remain a year, and upon opening it, at the end of that 

 period, my word for it the compost heap will not be neglected 

 the next year. 



DAVID WOOD, 



Woodland, near Newburyport, Sept. 23, 1845. 



