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Dr. J. E. Snodgrass. — It is absurd. Cattle need but little water 

 If they are fed on roots, which yield eighty per cent of moisture. 



Mr. Thomas Cavanach. — The dairjTnen in my neighborhood only 

 water their cows once a day, and they are healthy. 



FISH GUANO. 



Mr. Isaac Hicks, Hempstead, L. I. — Last year we experimented 

 in raising corn by different methods, as follows: We planted ten 

 acres with a drill, in two days. It was manured broadcast with 

 well-rotted stable manure, at the rate of ten two-horse wagon loads 

 per acre. To prove which would be the most profitable, we 

 planted two strips, in different parts of the field, of six rows each 

 in hills; all had the same cultivation, except the corn in hills was 

 hoed. The rest of the field never was hoed, but kept clean with a 

 two-horse cultivator. The corn that was drilled yielded one-eighth 

 more than that which was not. Last 3'ear we experimented with 

 fish guano. We took three strips of equal size (eight by fifty-eight 

 hills). Each strip wjis manured with an entire load of well-rotted 

 manure. Two strips were also manured with two dollars' worth of 

 fish guano, from Greenport, L. I,, in addition, and mixed with each 

 load. None was put in the middle strip. The corn, after the fish 

 guano was applied, grew ahead of all the rest, and the result at 

 the harvest was two hundred and six pounds from the strip without 

 manure; and from the strips on either side, where the fish guano 

 was applied, the weight was four hundred and eighteen and a half 

 pounds, and four hundred and thirty -five pounds respectively, 

 making an average gain of two hundred and twenty-one pounds of 

 ears, from two dollars' worth of fish guano. 



Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter. — I value fish guano equally with bone 

 dust or Peruvian guano. 



The Chairman. — Large quantities of what are called white-fish 

 are caught around Long Island, when they are steamed and pressed 

 for the oil. The residue is used for guano. 



UNFERMENTED MANURE. 



Mr. A. Reynolds, Davisville, R. I., wanted to know the opinion 

 of the Club on the use of unfermented manure, hauled directly 

 from the stables. It is claimed by many that it is much superior to 

 rotten manure. 



Mr. Wm. S. Carpenter. — I take exceptions to the practice. As a 

 general rule, green manures are dangerous, especially for fruit trees, 



