98 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE, 



in the anrden. As to the va'ue of roots, I think carrots the best to 

 feed all kinds of animals, even to ho^s. I wintered a pig, princi- 

 pally on carrots last winter, and he grew well. I raised them in 

 my gaidin, at the rate of one thousand bushels to the acre; special 

 care was taken with them." 



T. J. BuRBANK, Cooper. 



" Carrots are the principal root crop raised in this vicinity; our 

 sandy soils furnisii a good bed while the other requisite, quick acting 

 manure, we find in sea manure. Carrots grow best on the same 

 land a number of years in succession ; it is less work to clear them 

 of weeds. Tiiey are generally cultivated in flat beds, with from 

 fourteen to eii^hteen inches between the rows, and from four to six 

 inclies in the rows. They are good food for all kind of stock, k^ince 

 ' the failure of the potato crop, they liave taken the place of that root 

 for feeding hogs, raw caiiots making better feed for store hogs than 

 potatoes, and by boiling and mixing with meal will fatten them very 

 last." 



John S. Wells, Wells. 



"I cultivate carrots, sugar beets, rutabagas, and flat English 

 turnips: the three first by themselves in the field. Have been ac- 

 customed to sow them by machine, which answers excellently for 

 turnip, and perhaps fur caiiot seed, if mixed "with sometliing to 

 prevent their running too thickly through the large aperture re- 

 quired by their peculiar tbrm and character. I have lately beard 

 an equal quantity of radish seed suggested to regulate the measure, 

 and from its rapid growth and eaily maturity, prepare the way for 

 the carrot, and perhaps somewhat check the intrusion of weeds upon 

 its slow moulded companion. From several years experience. I am 

 satisfied that we cannot, except in a xavy wet planting- season, dis- 

 pense witii soaking beet seed, which would prevent its passing readily 

 through the machine. I have tlierefuie determined to sow them by 

 hand hereafter. Of flat turnips, I liave for several years obtained 

 a crop of from one to three hundred bushels, by sowing the seed 

 from a machine between the rows of corn after the last hoeing — 

 sowing and harvesting being the only lal)or bestowed upon them. I 

 feed out to my stock all the vegetal)les which I raise, and I know 

 that they contribute directly to the health of the animals, and by 

 the aid they afford to the process of assimilation, gain for them a 

 greater amount of nutrition fiom their dry food." 



J. F. Anuersox, So. Windham. 



" The cost of an acre of rutabagas, as we grow them here, is : 

 Plowing, . . . ' . . 82 00 



Harrowing. . . . . 1 00 



Opening drills, two and a half feet apart, . 1 00 . 



Three hundred pounds guano, . . 12 00 



