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back, it will soon become worthless; must have rest or 

 fertilizers. 



H. C. Mead did not think it best to plow manure in too 

 deep; did not get any benefit the first season and might not 

 the second. On an adjoining lot to his, a row of trees 

 shaded two rows of corn, which were much smaller than the 

 others; was it the shade or the effects of the roots of the 

 trees. Said Morrow looked like a professor; could he tell ? 



Pkof. Morkow had supposed he looked like other 

 men; was sorry to find to the contrary. He knew many 

 thought that agricultural editors knew but little about 

 farming, and that professors knew less; it might be so. 

 However, roots of trees had much to do with crops growing 

 in close proximity. As to plowing in manure, it reminded 

 him of the man who put his dinner in his hat, instead of 

 eating it; it didn't seem to invigorate much; he did not 

 think any fertilizer could be exhausted in one year. 



E. G. Ketchum thought one load of barn-yard manure 

 put on top, as good as two plowed in; especially on grass 

 land; to plow in manure he considered as labor lost, as 

 the soil would consume it as fast as applied; could see no 

 results from it. 



L. W. Sheldon, Union, Hlinois, furnished the following 

 paper on " Fertilizers." 



L. W. SHELDON'S PAPER. 



Mr. President and G-entlemen : I- am an advocate of any kind 

 of fertilizers that will induce plant growth. Chemical fertilizers can be 

 very profitably used if properly applied, but the value of each can only be 

 ascertained by careful experiments. The farmer with a cold, clay soil' 

 cannot expect the same kind of fertilizer to do the same for his crops that 

 a brother farmer realizes upon a warm, sandy soil. All fertilizers need a 

 certain amount of moisture to fit them for plant food ; some much more 

 than others. All should be incorporated with the surface soil in early 



