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B. P. WARE'S STATEMENT FOR 1862. 



In competing for the premium offered by your Society for 

 the best experiments on the application of manure — offered 

 this year 1862 — I selected an acre of land adjoining the lot 

 upon which I commenced a similar experiment last year. The 

 soil is a dark loam, nine inches deep, resting upon a gravelly 

 subsoil — not leachy, but rather light — nearly level, with the 

 exception of a gentle swell running across the lot. In April 

 of 1861 four cords of compost manure were spread upon this 

 land, and it was sown with oats. On the tenth of June, the 

 oats having attained a large growth, they were turned under, 

 and the land sown with carrots, but, owing to the dry, hot 

 weather, the seed failed, and in July, I sowed flat turnips, 

 which grew finely and yielded a large crop. 



On the fourteenth of May last, I divided the lot into five 

 equal parts, and manured four of them with compost manure 

 at the rate of ten cords per acre, which manure was taken 

 from a heap containing sixty-five cords, all forked over and 

 worked together. I like to compost my manure all in one 

 heap (except some special manures,) as fermentation is more 

 rapid, and I think there is less waste than in several smaller 

 heaps. 



Said compost heap was composed of meadow mud, sea 

 manure, and barn manure, the whole mass drenched with 

 eighteen cords of night soil. The same quantity of manure 

 was applied to each lot, and it was ploughed in eight inches 

 in lot No. 1 ; four inches in lot No. 2 ; harrowed in in lot 

 No. S, and spread on the surface of lot No. 4 after planting ; 

 while none was applied to lot No. 5. The directions of the 

 circular were followed to the letter. 



May 17th I planted nine rows of King Phillip corn in each 

 lot, three and a half feet apart, and hills in the rows the same 

 distance — six kernels in a hill, and covered the seed one and 

 a half inches deep. The corn was horse hoed, or cultivated, 

 three times during the season, and hand-hoed twice — not a 



