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useless. Our readers will get helpful ideas, I dare say. They will 

 avoid the lightning-rod peddlers, purchase their own rods, and put 

 them up themselves, as they can easily do with the help of the instruc- 

 tions given. 



Improving a Woen Plantation. 



Mr. Thos. Barnes, Ellicottville City, Md., asked attention to an 



experiment of his with two acres of exhausted land, and gave the 



following synopsis of outlay and income : 



1,200 pounds of fertilizer, at two cents ' . . $24 00 



Once ploughing and twice harrowing 4 00 



Clover and timothy seed 5 00 



Three bushels of seed rye 4 50 



Cutting and thrashing rye .- 7 50 



Total $45 00 



Mowing and housing clover . . . , 15 00 



Total $60 00 



Thirty bushels rye at 95 cents, 1870 $28 50 



Straw sold 25 00 



Clover and stubble 7 00 



60 50 



First crop clover, 1871, four tons, $20 $80 00 



Second crop clover, three tons, $15 45 00 



Third crop clover, two tons, $15 30 00 



155 00 



Total $215 50 



Subtracting outlay 60 00 



Total $155 50 



Gain per acre 77 00 



He expressed the opinion that it is not objectionable to buy manure 

 when it pays as these two acres have done, especially as the iand is 

 likely to be productive for years to come. The fertilizer was com- 

 posed of one-half of finely ground bone and one-half double-refined 



poudrette. 



Adjourned. 



