[July, 
AMERICAN AGRIC DLTURIST 
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Stockbridge 
Originated by Prof. STOCKBIUDGE, 
Professor of Agriculture in tile 
MASS. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE. 
Manures 
A special manure it made for each Farm and Garden Crop, containing .the, Plant-Food which eacli particu¬ 
lar Plant requires. These manures were used on more than 10,000 acres in 1877, and with Great Success. 
TURNIP.— For Vi or 1-6 acre, 1 bag. 250 lbs.. $5.50. Trie 
HUNGARIAN OR MILLET. 
For 1 acre ti Bags, 320 lbs., $10, or 450 lbs., $14. 
This crop is a strong feeder, 'l'u o to three tons per acre is 
not an unusual yield, and, cut early, it is considered equal to 
the best English hay. It thrives best in hot, dry weather 
and maybe sown from the middle ot June to the first of 
August, and grows in six weeks, and,maybe taken off in time 
to seed down in the fall,'or sow to winter Kyeoi Wheat. 
Hungarian is a grand thing, unit.is hot half appreciated by 
our farmers. ' About, oit'e bushel seed is sown to the acre. 
It should be cut when in blossom. 
will produce at the rate of 400 to’6( 0 husliels per acre, ac¬ 
cording to soil, season, and kind cultivated. Applied li 
the drill. 
CABBAGE. -For % acre, 1 bag, 200 lbs., $5. This wit! 
produce from 8 to 11 ) tons per acre, according to soil and sea¬ 
son. sown broadcast, or lined about the plants. This ma¬ 
nure is used by the market gardeners and liked very much. 
TOP-DRESS.— A clover field ora field recently seed¬ 
ed, or wherever there is a good moist sod, may he profitably 
top-dressed immedi 'tely after the grass Is cut, with the 
Stockbridge Grass Manure, 2 bags, $10 worth to an acre. 
BOWKER’S WHEAT MANURE.Per ton, $40: per hundred, $2.25. 
ROWKPD'S RUCKWHPAT MAMUDC r “ “ 
BOWKER’S BUCKWHEAT MANURE 
1 he e manures used in any quantity will yield excellent returns, as they are prepared with especial reference to 
the needs ot the crops, and should be used according to the condition of the land sown, from 200 to 600 lbs. per acre. 
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W- II. 
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NEW 
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