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scattering three or four bushels per acre over the whole 

 ground is best.^ 



Query 9. What is the greatest product you have 

 known by the means of plaister ? 



Answer, Of hay three tuns per acre ; as to corn I 

 cannot say, as 1 have generally used dung as well as 

 plaister. 



Query 10. Have you ever used it in connexion with 

 other manure, and does it agree with lime ? — and what 

 effect has a connection with other manures produced 

 superior to the plaister alone ? 



Answer, I have never tried it in a compost with lime 

 or other manures. 



Query II, Its duration? 



Answer. Its effect is perceivable for four or five 

 years. 



Query 12. Is there any difference in quality between 

 the American and European plaister ? 



Answer, I have used both without being able to dis- 

 cover any ; but have been informed that the Stucco 



* This is the best though the most expensive way, as the 

 roots of the corn spread far from the hill, and fill the field 

 at one stage or other of the growth of the plant. But it re- 

 quires good tilth to keep down the weeds. Nothing requires 

 more clean farming than corn, which is seldom ploughed 

 often enough. Only those who have experienced it, can con- 

 ceive the wonderful increase of corn, with a ploughing extra- 

 ordinary after wheat harvest j if it is done when the weather 

 is moist. In a drought it is rather 4angerous, 



R. P. 



