K i. X U B £ s . 83 



REPORT ON MANURES, 



JIY PROFESSOR NASH. 



What your Committee find specially to commend in tlie practice of 

 Mr. K. Hubbard, is, that he digs up and brings to his pig-pen and 

 yard, in those parts of the year, when farm work is least pressing, 

 sufficient swamp muck, to completely deodorise the excrements of 

 the animals and to retain all their fertilizing properties, till wanted 

 by growing plants, thus doubling and in some cases quadrupling the 

 <|uantity of manure, without detracting much of any thing from its 

 quality. 



STATEMENT OF KELITA HUBBARD. 



I have tried several methods of composting manures, with swamp 

 muck, by mixing it with barnyard manure, ashes, plaster, dtc, and I 

 find it profitable. But on my swamp, I have a large quantity of sage 

 bogs, which I have found very difficult to work into manure, and had 

 considered them worthless ; until I commenced throwing them into 

 my hogpen. I have found, for three or four months in a year, the 

 hogs would work them to pieces, and make some of my best and 

 cheapest manure. My practice is, to commence about the fii-st of 

 August and cart them green to my hogpen, throwing in, daily, as 

 many as they will work up. I have eight shoats, which will usually 

 demolish a cart buck full in two days, varying according to circum- 

 stances of feed, state of the bogs, &/C. 



These shoats make manure in three or four months, worth $35,00 

 Cost of getting the bogs, above the benefit hogs receive 

 from eating the roots, of which they are very fond, . 5,00 



Net gain, annually, $30,00 



Sunderland, Oct. 18, 1854. 



STATEMENT OF AVERY D. HUBBARD. 



The question, " how we can take a crop from our land every year, 

 and keep it as good as when we commenced?" is a question often 

 asked. And how we shall obtain a good crop and improve our land, 



