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If the soil of Somerset produces carrots at so good a profit as 

 appears from the above, it is respectfully suggested -whether it 

 might not be better to offer premiums in future for the best crop on 

 an acre, or certainly not less than half an acre, rather than on a 

 sixteenth. How can farmers otherwise obtain from their soil an 

 equivalent for eight hundred to fifteen hundred bushels of carrots 

 per acre ? 



Potatoes. First premium awarded to F. R. Dinsmore of Hart- 

 land, on "one-half acre worn out mowing, half of it planted to pota- 

 toes, the year before ; the other half yai'ded with five head of cattle, 

 three months ; five loads dressing put on old part, thirteen bushels 

 seed used ; planted 20th May ; soil dark, rocky loam ; close rocky 

 subsoil ; hoed twice ; dug in October ; yield, one hundred and six 

 bushels." 



J. P. Roberts obtained second premium on one hundred bushels, 

 on one-half acre ; "sound and did not rot; manured in hill ; " no 

 other items stated. 



Phillip Hubbard, third premium for two hundred and seventy- 

 five bushels on one acre and a half of old poor sward land, plowed 

 in November last; planted twenty-five bushels seed May 11th; hoed 

 once; no manure except a little plaster in the hills; crop free from rot. 



Seth Webb, fourth premium on one-half acre, yielding eighty- 

 seven bushels, planted 8th May, on clayey loam; used one-half 

 bushel of plaster. 



Rutabagas. Ellis Fisk of St. Albans, obtained premium on 

 English turnips, grown on a yellowish gravelly soil ; plowed eight 

 inches deep and manured at the rate of six cords of barn yard ma- 

 nure per acre ; sown broadcast the last of July ; crop, fifty bushels 

 on one-sixteenth of an acre. 



Thomas Fuller obtained premium on one hundred and ten bushels 

 of rutabagas grown on one-eight of an acre of old mowing land, 

 broken the middle of May and manured with four loads green ma- 

 nure ; sown June 1st, in rows two feet asunder ; thinned and hoed 

 twice. 



W. W. Watson grew rutabagas on a slaty loam, at the rate of 

 five hundred and sixty bushels per acre ; land manured at the rate 

 of thirty loads per acre. 



