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as the yield is more than double and less manure is required 

 they are much more profitable. Turnips are grown to some 

 extent, but not as much as they should be, White French and 

 Yellow Aberdeen or Stone, are the popular varieties. Where 

 land cannot be got into good condition for seeding with oats 

 in tlie spring, I sow grass seed with turnips any time in July 

 with excellent results. I sow the Yellow Aberdeen, as I 

 greatly prefer them to the hoed varieties. I can feed them 

 to milch cows without injury to the milk, and I like them bet- 

 ter for fattening stock. 



W. H. Yeomans, Columbia. 



Estimate of acreage and yield of farm crops in Columbia, 

 is as follows : — 



Wheat, none to my knowledge. 



Eye 50 acres, 15 to 20 bushels per acre. 



Oats 350 acres, 25 to 40 bushels, premium crop 73 bush. 



Barley 10 acres, 30 to 40 bushels per acre. 



Buckwheat 150 acres, 25 to 35 bushels per acre. 



Corn 300 acres, 40 to 60 bushels per acre ; premium 



crop last year 93 bushels. 

 Potatoes 200 acres, 100 to 150 bushels per acre. 

 Onions 15 acres, 300 to 400 bushels per acre. 

 Tobacco 20 acres, 1800 to 2000 lbs. per acre. 

 Sorghum 5 acres, 3 to 5 bbls. syrup per acre. 

 Beans 15 acres, 20 to 30 bushels per acre. 

 Turnips 10 acres, 400 to 500 bushels per acre. 

 Carrots 5 acres, 600 to 800 bushels per acre. 



S. B. West, Columbia. 



Rye. — White. Usually upon new or turf land, plowed in 

 the spring and cross plowed in fall. Phosphate, bone or 

 Peruvian guano 100 pounds per acre. Time of sowing from 

 September 1st to November 1st. Harvesting 10th to 25th 

 July. Acres by me two, (in town tliirty,) twenty-six bushels 

 per acre. Average product per acre, eighteen to twenty 

 bushels. Cost sixteen dollars per acre. Value one dollar 



