96 



value this year, (miicli less than last, or many previous years,) 

 •would amount to $152 56 



Deduct value of nine cords manure, at $5, 45 00 



Net profit in favor of the manure for this year. 

 The effects of manure upon the second year's crop, 

 may be sf en by deducting the Tveight of the crop of 

 No. 5 from the crop of No. 1, which is 8 tons 

 860 lbs., at 18, 



$107 56 



67 44 



"Which, added to this year's profit, makes a total of $175 00 

 in favor of the liberal use of manure upon one acre against 

 using none. 



A SYNOPSIS OF THE WEATHER DURING THE LAST SEASON. 



Last Third. 

 Moist. 



Dry- 

 Moist. 

 Moist. 

 Dry. 



Marhlehead, Nov. 12, 1861. 



STATEMENT OF RICHARD S. ROGERS. 



In consequence of a generally expressed wish to learn my 

 second year's results in top-dressing of grass lands, I am in- 

 duced to give the results of a series of experiments made by 

 me for two successive years — the first in 1860, which was pub- 

 lished in the " New England Farmer " of February of the 

 present year, — and of those made this season ; and for the bet- 

 ter information of those who may not have had an opportunity 

 of seeing them at the time they were published, I have thought 

 best to embody them in the present statement. They were as 

 follows : — 



