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compost manure in the hill, yicklcd at tlie rate of 3S ])ushels. 

 The corn treated with guano, although planted first, was behind 

 the other through the season, and of course was more injured by 

 the frost. 



I have used guano with potatoes, when a table-spoonful was 

 put in the hill ; the result, as compared with a shovelful of ma- 

 nure in the hill, was as six bushels with guano, to seven with 

 manure, the potatoes being of equal quality. Soil a light gravelly 

 loam. I have also tried an experiment on grass land, 150 lbs. 

 being sown on half an acre of low, moist land. The guano was 

 sown at the commencement of a heavy rain, about the 20th of 

 April. In this case the result Avas highly satisfactory, the crop 

 being double of last year, while all around it was lighter. In 

 another experiment on grass, made about three weeks later, on 

 higher land and in fair weather, no perceptible difference Avas 

 noticed. Squashes, turnips, beans and peas Avere raised success- 

 fully with guano. Onions a total failure ; beets nearly so. It 

 Avas also used with barley and a small piece of Avheat ; but as no 

 comparison Avas made with other manures, its value in these cases 

 could not be ascertained ; the crops, hoAvever, Avere good. 



I have often heard the opinion expressed, that a hundred bush- 

 els of corn could not be raised on an acre ; but I am satisfied that 

 if on a rocky, thin soil, 84 bushels can be raised in an unfavorble 

 season, 100 may easily be raised on a suitable soil in a favorable 

 season. In fact, the opinion was often expressed, that had the 

 season been favorable, 100 bushels Avould have been raised on 

 the acre offered by me for premium. I have no doubt that Avith 

 high manuring and high cultivation, corn may be made a profita- 

 ble crop. Without these conditions, no crop can be made profit- 

 able. Lucius Clapp. 



StougJiton, Nov. 10, 1855. 



MR. A. L. SMITH'S STATEMENT. 



The field of wheat which I enter for premium contains one half 



acre by measurement. Planted AAith corn last year, and manured 



with a shovelful of compost in the hill — all the manure the field 



has had for tAventy years. Soil a gravelly loam. The 28th of 



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