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seen some experiments with patent manures but didn't 

 consider them a success. He found in manuring that it 

 didn't cost him any more to produce forty and fifty 

 bushels of corn than to produce thirty and forty. He used 

 to fatten a great many cattle, and found that corn raised on 

 land that would produce 120 and 125 bushels was much 

 better than corn raised where the yield was less. The 

 meal was always worth more. It was the same with 

 pasture land. He kept account of every thing in his busi- 

 ness. He knew just what his expenses were. He had 

 found that in buying cows for thirty and forty dollars he 

 had made a hundred dollars. He thought this was on 

 account of rich pasture. Had found in pasturing that a. 

 forty-acre field, where it was well manured, would keep 

 much more stock than if it was poorly manured. It paid 

 to keep your land manured well. This year he had raised 

 some corn on surface-manured land and got 1 20 bushels to 

 the acre, and thought that this corn was worth more than 

 any raised on poorer land. 



Patten : Would differ a little from Bishop. He 

 thought that manure drawn out in piles served as a mulch 



and kept land from drying out. 



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Cahoon : His agricultural paper said that good tillage 

 was manure, and he agreed with it. 



Lawrence : Thought if we could get our manure on 

 fo] 

 it. 



before it heated we would derive the greater benefit from 



Bishop : Raised a good deal of grain. His barn- 

 yard had been covered very deep with manure. He drew 

 out when the summer work was over, and it heated in the 

 fall. He would just as lief have a load of such as that 

 which came from the stable. 



