REPORT OF MR. FRANCIS H. APPLETON. 529
1864-65 ....
4,952 cwt.,
costing
$5,754 (gold)
1865-66 ....
5,839
U
(•
9,031 “
1866-67 ....
4,627
U
U
6,523 “
1867-68 ....
6,207
u
U
11,571 “
1868-69 ....
7,026
u
U
12,834 “
1869-70 ....
8,698
u
u
16,041 “
1870-71 ....
11,633
u
u
18,758 “
1871-72 ....
10,066
u
u
21,851 “
1872-73 ....
9,848
u
u
24,335 «
Therefore in nine years, in all,
68,896 cwt.,
costing
$126,698 (gold)
Besides these artificial manures I had employed np to December, 1872:—
Of wood-ashes, .......
Of compost consisting of the refuse of the sugar- works and of the butchers’ stalls, also horn- parings and wool-refuse, . . . .
Of bat-guano from the grottos at Altogradena,
Of clay containing lime, . . . . .
37,283 bushels.
59,020 cwt. 4,940 cwt. 71,024 loads.
The conviction of the advantage and necessity of helping the land with artificial manure has become established in the minds of the small proprietors in this vicinity to a most encouraging extent. Herr Prokupek, in Kutlirsch, employs, beyond all, large quantities of artificial manure every year and gets the best results. This gentleman proves himself an intelligent farmer, and sets a most judicious example by putting his land into systematized working order by following the rules of a strict rotation of crops or otherwise pursuing the most rational course.
On the occasion of deep ploughing after my method for the first time at the estate of Kolin, upon the different tracts which had been let out, we brought a quantity of fertilizing substances to the surface, among them original matter not yet exhausted, and the various manures which had been occasionally applied by the tenants, washed into the subsoil hy rain and snow-water.
By thus employing many varieties of manure in the larger amounts, the third mainspring of production is made to play its part.
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