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Expense and profit of the crop. 



Value of the crop per acre, taken at the rate at 



which part of the crop was sold, 1227| 



bushels, at Is , $153 42 



Cultivation, rent, manure, &c. $21 00 



Expenses drawing to market, 22 SOf 



43 50 



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Value to consume on farm, 1227 and two-fifths at 6 cts. $73 64 

 Expenses of cultivation, manure, rent, &c 21 00 



Cahandaigua, Dec. 1845. 



LUCIUS WARNER. 



The soil on which the mangel wurtzel grew is a composition of 

 clay, gravel, sand and loam, so nicely divided as to render it difficult 

 to tell which predominates. It was in good condition. The previous 

 crop was corn on corn stubble, with two plowings, and fifty loads ma- 

 nure per acre, applied before the last plowing. It was planted two and 

 a half feet apart each way, and thinned to three plants in a hill ; produce 

 ninety-eight bushels per acre. For the mangel wurtzels the ground 

 was plowed once in the fall and twice in the spring. It was harrowed 

 and sown 8th May with three and a half pounds seed of the long red 

 variety with a drill barrow from twenty to thirty inches apart. About 

 twenty-five loads yard manure applied before the last plowing. The 

 first of July they were hoed and thinned to eight or ten inches, and 

 the middle of July hoed again. Harvested the last of October, by 

 simply pulling and breaking the tops by hand. Amount of crop 

 480 bushels at 45 pounds per bushel, or 960 bushels per acre. The 

 crop was very promising until the first of August, when the drouth 

 became so severe as almost to stop the growth four or five weeks,, 

 which I think greatly diminished the crop. Those sown thii'ty inches 

 apart produced more than those sown nearer together. 



Expense of cultivation. 



Three plowings, , . . . . . $1 50 



Twenty-five loads manure, 2s. - 6 25 



Harrowing, 50 



Sowing, 25 



Sixteen days weeding and thinning, 4s. „ 8 00 



Seven days harvesting, 4s 3 50 



$20 00 

 Value of seed, three and a half pounds, 5s. ............. . 1 19 



$21 19 



