40 TRANSACTIONS. 



THEODORE G. HUNTINGTON'S STATEMENT. 



The piece of ground on which my experiment was mad3 is a cold, 

 dry loam. In the summer of 1854, it was in grass, and probably did 

 not produce 500 pounds of good hay per acre. In the spring of 1855, 

 it was ploughed, and manured at the rate of twenty loads per acre of 

 composted manure, consisting of muck, ashes, plaster and saltpetre* 

 which cost, on the ground, one dollar per load. I planted to Carter 

 potatoes, and obtained a small yield of forty bushels per acre, but of 

 good quality. 



The last spring, the ground, after being ploughed, was dressed with 

 200 pounds of guano per acre, a small piece on the poorest part of the 

 lot being left undressed for the purpose of noting the difference. 

 The piece was then sowed to oats and grass seed. In harvesting, I 

 measured off one rod square of the T.mmanured ground and a like 

 quantity of the manured, the two being within a few feet of each 

 other. The two patches were reaped, taken home and put in the 

 barn. The result was as folloAvs : 



The rod dressed with guano yielded 12 quarts oats weighing 10 

 lbs., straw 10 1-4 lbs. This per acre would be — 



53 1-2 bushels at 50 cents, . . . $2G 75 



1040 lbs. straw at $8 . . , . 6 56 



$33 31 



The undressed rod yielded 8 quarts oats 5 6-1 6 lbs., making per acre : 

 29 bush, 30 lbs. per bush., 50 cts. per bush., Sl4 50 



820 lbs. straw at ^8 3 28 



ai7 78 



Difference in favor of guano, — 



Per acre, $15 53 



Deduct cost of 200 lbs. guano, ... 6 00 



Net profit per acre, .... $9 53 



It will be noticed in this experiment, that the oats not only yielded 

 much more, but were of much better quality, when the guano wa* 

 used. As far as my observation goes, this manure, when applied to 

 cold land, produces a much more striking effect upon a crop of oats, 

 than upon one of corn. 



