Proceedings of ihe Farmers' Club. 751 



follows : Xo. 1. "Witliout niaimre. Yield of piece, twenty-one bush- 

 els — fonrtcen bushels sound and seven bushels of soft corn, or at the 

 rate of only thirty-five bushels of sound corn to the acre. The quality 

 of that called sound corn was not first rate. (The yield in bushels of 

 ears and not of shelled corn ) No. 3. Manured in December with 

 barn-yard manure. Yield of piece, twenty-eight bushels — twenty- 

 three bushels of sound corn and five bushel* of soft corn, or at the rate 

 of fifty-seven and a half bushels of sound corn per acre, being a gain 

 over ]S"o. 1 of tvv'enty-two and a half bushels of sound corn per acre. 

 I leave out the soft corn in estimating the grain per acre. The other 

 pieces received, in addition to the barn-yard manure, the followin'^ 

 additional applications: IS'o, 3. Poudrette, made by composting night- 

 soil with about four times its bulk of swamp-muck, and turnino- the 

 compost two or three times to insure a thorough mixture. The corn 

 was first dropped, about one quart of the mixture dropped on the 

 corn, and the whole covered with two or tiiree iioefuls of earth. The 

 yield of the piece was thirty-six busliels, thirty-four bushels sound, 

 and two bushels of soft corn, or at the rate of eighty-five bushels of 

 sound corn per acre, being a gain over No. 2 of twenty-seven and 

 one-half bushels of sound corn per acre, and over No. 1 of fifty bush- 

 els per acre. No. 4. Muck and manure. A compost was made of 

 one-third manure and two-thirds muck. This liad lain about one 

 year. A small sliovelful was applied to each hill in the same manner 

 as in No. 3. Yield, thirty-one and one-half bushels, twenty-seven and 

 one-half bushels sound, and four bushels soft corn, or at the rate of 

 sixty-eight bushels of sound corn per acre, being a gain over No. 2 of 

 \q\\ and one-half bushels of sound corn per acre, and over No. 1 of 

 thirty-three bushels per acre. No'. 5. This was manured with an 

 article I purchased call superphosphate. Yield, fifteen and three- 

 fourths bushels, nine and one-half bushels sound and six and one- 

 fourth bushels of soft corn, or at the rate of only twenty-four bushels 

 of sound corn per acre, l)eing eleven bushels less per acre than No. 1 

 on M'hich no manure was applied. This article appeared to be com- 

 posed almost entirely of the flesh of dead animals; there might have 

 been some bone in it, but if there was, the proj)ortion was so small I 

 was unable to discover it. This was first dropped, then covered with 

 earth, and the corn planted on that. No. 0. Ashes. Tlie ashes was 

 first dropped, then covered with earth, and the corn planted, the same 

 as No. 5. Yield of piece, nineteen bushels, fourteen bushels sound 

 and five bushels soft corn, or at the rate of thirty-five bushels sound 



