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Committee recommend that the experiments be published in the 

 transactions of the year, for future guidance. 



For the Committee, \ 



CHEEVER NEWHALL, Chairman. 

 Dorchester, Bee. 26, 1861. 



STATEMENT OF CHARLES BRECK. 



CiiEEVER Newiiall, Esq., Dorchestor : 



Dear Sir, — My experiment on manure was conducted in every 

 respect according to the requirements of the State Board of 

 Agriculture. 



The piece of land selected as the one best adapted to the ex- 

 periment was an old pasture, which had probably been used as 

 such fifty years or more, and, consequently, no part of it had been 

 affected by any application of manure before the present season. 

 It contained 34 rods, and was divided into nine lots ; five con- 

 taining four rods each for the County and State experiment, 

 three of four rods each for trial of superphosphate by the side of 

 manure, and one of two rods with house ashes. 



The land was of a light loamy soil, Avith a gravelly sub-soil. 

 It was plowed between seven and eight inches deep. The result 

 was as follows : — No. 1 had 116 pounds of corn on the cob, and 

 118 pounds of fodder, which was at the of 59.48 bushels of shelled 

 corn, and 4720 pounds of fodder per acre. No. 2 had 128 

 pounds of corn on the cob, and 103 pounds of fodder, which was 

 at the rate of 65.64 bushels of shelled corn, and 4120 pounds of 

 fodder per acre. No. 3 had 118 pounds of corn on the cob, and 

 79 pounds of fodder, which was at the rate of 60.51 bushels of 

 shelled corn, and 3160 pounds of fodder per acre. No. 4 had 

 66 pounds of corn on the cob, and 42 pounds of fodder, which was at 

 '• the rate of 28.71 bushels of shelled corn, and 1680 pounds of fodder 

 per acre. No. 5 had 23 pounds of corn on the cob, and 25 pounds 

 of fodder, which was at the rate of 11.64 bushels of shelled corn 

 and 1000 pounds of fodder per acre. The quantity of manure 

 used was an even horse cart body full for each lot, or twenty feet, 

 equal to 6 1-4 cords per acre. It was horse and pig manure, in 

 Avhich leaves had been freely used for litter. It was made the 

 previous winter, and had been carted to the field a few weeks be- 

 fore using. 



The average of the four lots on which manure was used was 53.73 

 bushels of shelled corn, and 3420 pounds of fodder per acre, or 

 42.09 bushels of corn, and 2420 pounds of fodder per acre more 

 than on that where no manure was used. 



Taking then No. 5, on which no manure was used, as the 



