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any of seven early varieties. They have twenty acres set in "Wilson's 

 early l)lackberry. 



Liniment for Stock. 

 Mr. Henry Adolph, Clinton, Douglas county, Ivan., sends a bottle 

 of liniment for external diseases of sheep, horses, and neat cattle, 

 which he wishes the members to test. 



Adjourned. 



July 20, 1869. 



Nathan C. Ely, Esq., in the chair; Mr. John W. Chambers, Secretary. 

 Commercial Fertilizers. 



Alfred L. B. Zerdgo, of Alere, Loudon county, Ya., wrote as follows : 

 " I am manuring a small piece of meadow land— -say two and a 

 quarter acres — with about 150 ox-cart loads of stable manure, and 

 I intend plowing it up this fall. In the spring I propose to plant 

 corn on this field, and I want to use some poudrette of the Lodi 

 Manufacturing Company with the corn. I should like to hear from 

 members of the Club, their experience with poudrette ; how to use it 

 and how much to the acre. " 



Mr. J. B. Lyman. — Grood commercial manure will give^ a quick 

 growth in May and June, when applied to Indian corn ; but I do 

 not think the ears will be any larger. After a good many experi- 

 ments I have come to the conclusion that no fertilizer begins to com- 

 pare with ground bone. Those advertised mixtures are valuable in 

 proportion as bone is made an ingredient. The Lodi company makes 

 several varieties of commerical manure. The cheapest is New York 

 filth, dried. Another sort is this dried filth, mixed with the offal of 

 slaugliter-houses. Still another has in it a good deal of crushed bone. 

 I have tried the Lodi poudrette, and must say that its eftect on grain 

 and potatoes has, to some extent, disappointed me. It does not appear 

 to be a lasting manure. This kind of commercial fertilizer, which is 

 known as poudrette, does not seem to have any available ammonia 

 in it. Another season I think I shall employ bone manure instead 

 of poudrette. 



Mr. D. B. Bruen. — My experience coincides with that of Mr. Lyman 

 in regard to poudrette. So I employed bone dust. But this killed 

 my strawberries. Perhaps we applied too large a quantity to a hill. 



Mr. II. T. Williams. — I applied bone dust to tomatoes and found 

 it advanced their ripening full two weeks. But I do not con- 



