EXPERIMENTS WITH MANURES. 



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ISAAC B. WOODWARD'S STATEMENT. 



To the Secretary of the Worcester North Agricultural Society : 



Sir : Last year I furnished you with a statement of 

 my experiment on tl^e use of manures, and the result, 

 as far as an almost total failure of the crop seemed to 

 require. I will now state the result of the experiment 

 as effecting the crop of wheat this year. The lot, it will 

 be remembered, was divided into five equal parts, each 

 containing four square rods. The piece was plowed 

 twice the first week in May, 1861; the first time 

 seven inches, and the second time six inches deep, and 

 sown with wheat. The crop was harvested on the 

 16th of August^ and the several lots yielded as 

 follows : 



Lot. Weight of Wheat. Weight of Straw. 



1 32 lbs., 14 oz. 46 lbs., 7 oz. 



2 27 " 10 " 39 " 6 " 



3 30 " 14 " 44 " 11 " 



4 29 " 14 " 39 " 9 " 



5 23 " 6 " 31 " 12 " 



It will be seen that the crop of No. 2, where the 

 manure was plowed in six inches deep, is less than 

 that of the other manured lots. This is partly owing, 

 I think, to the fact that about one rod of it was badly 

 injured by worms. The weather was as follows : 



First Third. Second Third. Last Third. 



May, wet dry wet 



June, wet dry dry 



July, dry dry moist 



August, moist dry dry 



September, moist dry dry 



Respectfully submitted. 



ISAAC B. WOODWARD. 



November, 1861. 



