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The farm is now without a tenant, but the committee 

 hope to lease it to a suitable person before the next- season. 

 The barn and adjoining shed, built twenty-five years 

 ago. and then shingled with second quality shaved shingles, 

 without repairs since, were in such a leaky condition 

 as to make a new covering a necessity, which is now being 

 done with first quality of sawed cedar shingles, and if they 

 prove as serviceable as those they replace, the society will 

 have reason to be satisfied. There are some broken down 

 gates that are to be put in respectable condition. The 

 committee feel that under the circumstances the farm lias 

 made a creditable showing, with receipts of 8350. This, 

 with the following statement, is respectfully submitted. 



Benjamin P. Ware, Chairman. 



STATEMENT OF EXPERIMENTS ON TREADWELL FARM, IN TOPS- 

 FIELD, DURING THE SEASON OF 1887. 



First. Experiment with corn, to test comparative value 

 of manure from the barn, and Darling's fertilizer. Lot 1, 

 containing one acre, was manured with four cords of barn 

 manure, applied in the hill. Value on the land, $40 ; 

 yielded thirty-three (33) bushels shelled corn, and one and 

 one-half tons stover. Value of crop, $37.80, at an estimate 

 of sixty cents per bushel, for corn, and $12 per ton, for 

 stover, or reckoning the seventy pounds corn on the ear as 

 worth the same price for grinding cob and corn together, as 

 an equal weight of western meal costs, as it actually is for 

 feeding purposes, and we have a value of $27.70 for corn, 

 and for making milk, the stover is worth $15 per ton, or 

 $21.50 on the acre. By this estimate, the crop is worth 

 $49.20, and, in my judgment, the latter value, less the cost 

 of grinding, is the true one to the farmer. 



On Lot No 2, containing also one acre, was used 1435 

 pounds Darling's fertilizer, costing $25.07, and producing 

 thirty-two bushels shelled corn, and one and one-half tons 

 stover. Value to sell, $37.20. Value to use, 148.50, on 

 same basis as before. Actual difference in crop on the two 

 lots, one bushel shelled corn in favor of manure. 



