feed."

"Then you produce on the farm all the manure you use," suggested
Percy, "but I think you mentioned hauling seaweed."

"Yes, and I haul some manure, too, when I can get it; but usually
there are three or four farmers ready to take every load of town
manure."

"You get it from town for the hauling?"

"Well, I guess not," said Mr. Robbins emphatically and with apparent
astonishment at such a question. "I don't think I would haul seaweed
seven miles if I could get manure in town for nothing. Manure is
worth $1.50 a ton Iying in the livery stable, and there are plenty
to take it at that right along. I'd a little rather pay that than
haul seaweed; but the manure won't begin to go around, and so
there's nothing left for us but seaweed; and, if we couldn't get
that, the Lord only knows what we could do."

"How much seaweed can you haul to a load, and about how many loads
do you apply to the acre?"

"When the roads are good we haul a cord and a quarter, and we put
ten or twelve loads to the acre for corn and then use some
commercial fertilizer."

"Do you know how much a cord of the seaweed would weigh?"

"Yes, a cord weighs about a ton and a half."