Caption: Board of Trustees Minutes - 1870
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248 D R . GREGORY—It is questionable whether if all quit growing wheat, we shall in the villages have any grain to eat. GORE—I would not be understood to say that we are to do without bread. I think that a proper rotation of crops will give bread enough. WHITNEY—How much would you rot manure before you put it on? GORE—Fresh manure is more lasting; rotted manure more immediate in its effect. It is my practice to apply manure during the fall and winter. WARDER—How right after haying ? That is the common prac tice in Ohio. G O R E — I do not know. KICE of Champaign—What is the value of different kinds of manure? That from wheat our Michigan professor told us was nearly least in value. The wheat crop then would injure the farmer most. GORE—Boussingault or Johnston, I think, gives a table oi manures. Where that from the sheep is valued at 80, when stable manure is worth 100. But the former probably gives quicker results, [This is perhaps an error. In the table of comparative value of manures given in Boussingault, farm land dung being put at 100, sheep manure is put at 65 in a dry state, and 36 in a wet. —Secretary.] PROF. STUART—Is vegetable mould or humus of any special value ? G O R E — I think so. STUART—I want to get at the depth of black soil. Its color, we suppose, comes from decayed vegetable matter. Is it as deep with you as here? Does your experience lead you to believe it is a valuable manure . GORE—The depth of soil with us is trombone to three feet thick. DEEP AND SHALLOW PLOWING GEO. R I C E of Champaign—I came here two years ago from Madison county, and found farmers using shovel plows. said it would not do to plough deep, and the fact does appear that deep plowing (eight inches) does not always produce corn. A neighbor of mine has raised this last year more They to be good corn
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