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placed from 12 to 15 Laches distant from each other in the drill. 

 The manure was put in the drill with the potatoes. The 

 ground was hoed but once, and the cultivation was entirely 

 flat. The crop was dug Oct. 26th. The potatoes were large ? 

 fair, and free from rot, and the whole crop was weighed. 

 Lot, Manure, Product, Proportion of Product 



No. 1, Mape's Improved Super- 

 phosphate of Lime, 735 lbs. 



" 2, DeBurg's No. 1 Super- 

 phosphate of lime, 642 " 



" 3, Mape's Nitrogenized su- 

 per-phosphate of lime, 603 " 



" 4, Guano and Plaster mix- 

 ed in equal quantities, 429 " 



" 5, Barnyard Manure, 417 " 



JABEZ FISHER. 



Jabez Fjsher's Statement. 

 My experiment in the application of manures was conduct- 

 ed as follows. I divided 1 1-4 acres of ground, consisting of 

 a moderately strong loam upon a clay bottom, into five equal 

 parts. Except in the matter of manures, all parts of the field 

 were treated precisely alike. The compost mentioned in the 

 table, was made from four parts of the clear droppings, solid 

 and liquid, of the barn, with one part of wool waste. This 

 was ploughed in. The Guano and Plaster were mixed, sown 

 broadcast, and, as were also the Phosphates, worked in with 

 the cultivator. Long Orange Carrot seed 2 1-2 lbs. to the 

 acre was sown May 26th, in drills 17 inches apart. The seed 

 vegetating very unsatisfactorily, the whole piece was resown 

 in the same drills June 13. The plants came up very thinly, 

 looked small all the season, and ceased growing about the 

 middle of September. This deficiency in growth I am at a 

 loss to account for, unless it is to be attributed to the quality 

 of the seed ; for the reason that upon a part of the same 



