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green manure. The next year he took this neighbor out to 
his fields and showed him the fine condition of his crops, 
and convinced the man that manure applied fresh was worth 
at least ten per cent, more than that which had stood in the 
yard all winter. The land where he put this fresh manure 
produced large corn-stalks and more corn than before. 
There were many wrong impressions, he believed, concern¬ 
ing the value of manure. He knew men who claimed to 
be, and were honest in their business dealings, who would 
take crop after crop from their lands and never repay or 
replenish them with even a rest. These same fields, if 
manured a few times would double their products. He 
believed it possible to manure corn land so that it would 
produce all stock and no corn, but a right quantity spread 
will more than double the amount taken off. He generally 
applied two loads of manure, yearly to each acre of grain 
land; this he had found to be enough. 
Clark : A man of his acquaintance had for a number 
of years manured a forty-acre piece of land by plowing 
grain under when green, and found it profitable. 
W. W. Bingham : Had tried plowing under gre£n 
rye, and found that it put his corn back. He thought that 
the second year after plowing in corn would do well. 
s C. H. Larkin : This question of the profitable dispos¬ 
ition of manure, like all other questions, involves the ques» 
tion of the cost of labor. You must judge of the profit of 
it only as compared with the cost of the labor required in 
disposing of it in a certain way. 
He had desired to top dress a piece of meadow land 
and had put on the manure in the most convenient manner 
from a wagon, Right here he would digress a little and 
