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Experiments ON Manures &c.
From the Transactions Of tho Essex (Mass.) Ag.
ricultural Society.
The Committee Report That they con.
slider the subject of tho making and apPli.
cation Of manures, one of the greatest i'm.
portance 10 the agricultural interests. Ma.
nure and labor are to the farmer what cap.
i.al and credit are to the merchant. With
them we'll applied, the one will add oarnto
barn, the other store house TO store house,
ill there shall be no room 10. contain their
several wealth without them, they must
soon suspend operations, and their farms
and their ships pass into the hands Of more
skillful and industrious owners.
Many farmers think they cannot afford to
purchase manare, and the price does seem
disproportioned 10 the immediate profits {;
but no farmer will say that he cannot afford
to make the mos, Of what he has. and to
apply it to the best advantage. Many take
an homes, pride in being able TO say, lave
raised SO many hundred bushels of corn,
or so many tons ofhay now to be able to
say Ihave made FIVE hundred loads ofman-
ure, is just as much matter of boasting,
for manure will make corn, and hay, and
other valuable products, if !, be only judic.
iously applied. Put in the seed and the
manure, and the grateful soil will make you
a liberal return. 1t is held to be true by
experienced farmers, tina, he who doubles
the expense oflabor and manure, will in-
crease his profits and products 10 nearly
four.foid proportion. In other words, the
man who spends half his time upon his
farm, and skins over one hundred acres
Of land and CLEANS from it filty bushels Of
corn and twenty tons Of hay,if he should
devote his whole energies to his farm, and
improve his means Of making manure,
might raise nearly two hundred bushels OF
corn and eighty tons of hay.
Some have, 10 their natural situation and
proximity to the sea.board, greater facilities
for making and obtaining manure but
every substance Of animal and vegetable
matter can be mixed with the soil in such q
manner as to increase the fertility Of the
earth [; and even the different soils may De
mingled so as t, produce the same effect.
The quantity Of manure farmer uses, is
a pretty fair criterion by which TO judge his
character. In Plymouth county, where
premium is rewarded to the man who
makes the greatest number of loads, most
worthy and truly respectable farmer, the
last year, reached the very enviabe emi.
nence of seven hundred and ninety.elght
loads the lowest competitor claimed tor
three hundred and fifty loads, and his must
be allowed to be an improving character.
William Clark, jr. Of Northampton, in bis
statement to the Hampshire. Franklin and
Hampden Agricultural Society, represents
that he keeps an average stock Of eight
swine, three horses, and eight oxen and
COWS from this stock, with the skillul use
ofaIl his advantages. which are not superior
to those of many of eur farmers, he made
from June 1887 to June 1888, nine hun.
dred and twenty loads, an honorable monu.
ment to his intelligence and industry, which
compensates in utility and solid value for
what It may want in taste and splendor.
Mr.. Clark used for compost three hundred
loads Of sods and soil and two hundred and
for'y-seven loads Of swamp muck. His
yards were supplied with cnrn.s.alks and
refuse hay during the winter, and brakes
and weeds in the summer, and cleared out
twice during the year. II might be suppos.
ed that manure so made could p ,sscss but
little Of the qulckening and strengthening
principles but those who have visited his
farm and seen his fields burdened with their
heavy crops, are satisfied that Mr.. Clark
knows how to make manure and to apply it.
and tia, his fields acknowledge their OBJ
ligalion and pay their due return. Mr.
Clark, from such manure, has raised more
than one thousand bushels Of corn in a year
The committee award to Daniel Put
nam, Of Danvers, for the satisfactory ex
pertinent and the full and explicit statemen
made by him, premium Of twenty dollars
They recommend that Mr.. Punamt
statement and the letter addressed by 10
seph How, Esq. of Methuen, 10 the com
mite, be published.
-. For the Committee,
DANIEL r. KING.
Topsfeld, Dec. 25, 1888.