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may be found in my last year's statement,) being sufficienly 

 dry, I ploughed it eight inches deep, and then harrowed it. 

 May 30th, I cross-ploughed it, harrowed and dragged it, which 

 left the land in good condition for the seed. June 1st, I sowed 

 with orange globe mangolds in drills, twenty inches apart, ten 

 drills in each lot, using no manure upon any of the five lots. 

 I propose to continue the experiment upon lot No. 6, by the 

 spreading upon the furrows, after the cross-ploughing, fine com- 

 post manui'e, composed of meadow mud, sea-kelp and stablo 

 manure, of equal parts, the whole drenched with night soil, 

 forked over several times until well mixed and pulverized, at 

 the rate of nine cords per acre, which was harrowed in. In all 

 other respects, this lot was cidtivated precisely as the other five. 

 Hoping by this experiment to prove the profit or loss of the 

 annual use of a Hberal quantity of manui-e, in comparison with 

 none at all or once in three years, the experiment on this lot I 

 respectfully ofier for the Society's premium, independent of the 

 premium offered for three year's experiment on the other five 

 lots. 



The crop was hoed three times, and weeded by hand twice 

 during the season. At the second weeding, the plants were 

 thinned to six inches, and all vacancies were filled by trans- 

 planting. 



Oct. 29th, the crop was pulled, topped and thrown in heaps, 

 where it remained one day to dry before weigliing. 



Lot No. 1 produced 3170 lbs, at the rate of 25 tons, 720 lbs. per acre 



Thus showing a balance in favor of lot No. 6, as compared 

 with lot No. 5, (where no manm-c was applied last year,) of 

 19 tons 140 lbs. per acre, which, at $8 per ton, the market 



