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vor. We have had some experience in root crops, especially rutvi 

 baga and carrots, but do not think them entitled to all the com- 

 mendation they receive in our agricultural journals. Near our 

 cities, where hay always commands a high price, the ruta baga may 

 be cultivated to advantage ; but where the average price of hay is 

 not over $5, I do not believe it profitable to cultivate the crop to 

 any great extent. Carrots, though not so easily raised, I think a 

 much more profitable crop, being worth twice as much to feed to 

 stock as the ruta baga — being a most excellent article to feed to 

 cows or work horses. As to our clear profits from farming, it is 

 enough to say, " the deposites are removed." I have thus very ge- 

 neraly answered the several queries, though I trust frankly and ho- 

 nestly ; and if I have contributed by it to the least advancement in 

 agriculture, I shall be satisfied. 



Seth Severance. 



Mr. Lyon's Farm Report. 



In conformity to the rules and regulations of the Oswego County 

 Agricultural Society,!, John W. Lyon, do hereby present to the offi- 

 cial department of that Society an accurate description of my farm, 

 situate in Hastings, on the stage road leading from Syracuse to Wa- 

 tertown, entered for a premium, and visited by Messrs. Allen and 

 Merrian of said county, as awarders and judges of the same. 



The management of fifty acres is thus: 



Ten acres in corn; five after corn, and five on wheat and oat stub- 

 ble. The crop suffered on account of the frost on the 6th of June; 

 had no manures, save one acre, that was thin plastered only once; 

 hoed twice; cut up by the ground when fit; average 25 bushels to 

 the acre — 250. 



Four acres of oats, sowed after oats; seed, three bushels to the acre; 

 no plaster used ; seeded the same heavy to timothy and clover; had 

 from the same, 50 bushels the acre ; 200. 



Seven acres in grass; upland without plaster; supposed to be about 

 10 tons. 



Two acres and a half in barley, after corn; sowed two bushels of 

 seed to the acre; got 70 bushels; it is supposed by neighbors, that 

 the crop was benefitted by sheeping the same down after it had got 

 up green. 1 think the same; 1 left them on the barley ten days; in 

 that time it spread'much; this crop was on worn out sand, so called. 



Two acres in spring wheat, after potatoes; the potatoe land was made 

 rich the year before with long dung; put tv/o bushels of seed to the 

 acre; got 40 bushels of wheat. 



Two and a half acres in winter wheat, sowed after spring w^heat; 

 and although the crop was some injured by the timothy seeding and 

 weevil, I had 28 bushels clean wheat; sowed Ih bushels to the acre; 

 no plaster used; the land gravel. 



Eight acres in buckwheat, where my corn failed; sowed half bush- 



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