ast, when it was weighed and hauled to the
fields. I found that a wagon-box, 1-1/2 x 3 x 9 feet, into which the
manure was pitched, without treading, held with slight variations, when
level full, one ton. At this rate a cord would weigh very close to three
tons.

The greatest difficulty that we have to encounter in the management of
manure grows out of our dry summers. During our summer months, unless
sufficient moisture is obtained, the manure dries out rapidly, becomes
fire-fanged and practically worthless. My practice upon the College farm
has been to give the bottom of the barn-yard a "dishing" form, so that
it holds all the water that falls upon it. The manure I keep as flat as
possible, taking pains to place it where the animals will keep it trod
down solid. I have adopted this plan after having tried composting and
piling the manure in the yards, and am satisfied that it is the only
_practical_ way to manage manures in this climate.

There is no particular crop to which manure is generally applied in this
State, unless, perhaps, wheat. The practice of applying manure as a
top-dressing to winter-wheat, is rapidly gaining ground here. It is
found that the manure thus applied, acting as a mulch, mitigates the
effects of drouth, besides improving the quality of the grain.

Very Respectfully Yours,

E. M. SHELTON.

Letter from Prof. W. H. Brewer, Professor of Agriculture in Sheffield
Scientific School of Yale College.

SHEFFIELD SCIENTIFIC SCHOOL OF YALE COLLEGE,

NEW HAVEN, Conn., April 14th, 1876.

_Joseph Harris, Esq., Rochester, N.Y._:

MY DEAR SIR.--I have made inquiries relating to "the price of
stable-manure in New Haven, and how far the farmers and gardeners haul
it, etc." I have not been to the horse-car stables, but I have to
several _livery_ stables, and they are all essentially the same.

They say that but little is sold by the _cord_ or _ton_, or by any
weight or measure. It is sold either "in the lump," "by the month," "by
the year," or "per horse." Some sell it at a given sum per month for all
their horses, on a general estimate of their horses--thus, one man says,
"I get, this year, $25 per month for all my manure, he to remove it as
fast as it accumulates; say one, two, or three times per week. He hauls
it about five miles and composts it all before using."

Another says, he sells _per horse_. "I get, this year, $13 per horse,
they to haul it." The price per horse ranges from