^^^ EXPERIMENTS WITH MANURES. 



" This experiment is to be continued through a rota- 

 tion of three years, but no manure is to be applied to 

 the second or third crop. The rotation would be pre- 

 ferred if limited to coruj grain and grass, but is optional." 



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As tliese experiments are to be continued througli a course of three 

 years, no report, except of progress, will be expected until the third 

 year, 1862. Three entries were made in this department, and the 

 competitors, severally, furnished the required statements, of which the 

 following are abstracts. — Sec. 



ISAAC B. WOODWARD'S STATEMENT. 



The lot on which my experiment was tried contains 

 twenty square rods. The soil is rather heavy, being a 

 black loam upon a clay sub-soil, is moist and retentive 

 of manures. The crop of 1859 was potatoes, manured 

 at the rate of about three cords of horse manure to the 

 acre. For the present crop it was first plowed eleven 

 inches deep ; manured with one hundred and twenty 

 bushels of green manure of neat stock, thirty bushels to 

 each of the four lots ; was planted with corn May 9th, 

 the corn being dropped by hand and covered with a hoe, 

 and was hoed three times, using the cultivator the first 

 and last times, and plowing the second time. 



As soon as my corn was planted the wire-worm com- 

 menced to destroy it, and what little did come up the 

 cut-worms took at the halves, so that I could not have 

 any experiment this year, but I hope for better success 

 with wheat next year, and grass the year after. When 

 I saw my corn was spoiled, I neglected to keep the 

 synopsis of the weather, required, but think it may be 

 called wet and cold. 



