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fifteen bushels good wood ashes. Could perceive no difference in 

 the yield between the guano and the ashes. Whole expense $22 ; 

 value $54, and straw f 4. 



Potatoes. Mr. Drummond also grew one hundred and six bush- 

 els seedling potatoes on half an acre of sandy loam, plowed up from 

 grass, with four cords of horse manure and straw, Avorth $5, top 

 dressed with five bushels wood ashes, worth $1 ; cultivated and hoed 

 once; whole cost $10; value $30. 



Turnips. R. R. Drummond of Winslow, grew at the rate of 

 nine hundred and four bushels of ruta bagas per acre, (two hundred 

 and twenty-six bushels on one-fourth of an acre,) on a fine light soil 

 which was in corn last year, with light dressing ; plowed in fall ; 

 harrowed in on two-thirds of it a cord of unfermented manure, and 

 fifteen bushels of ashes on the other third ; hoed twice, and thinned 

 out. Total cost of crop $10.35; value, 226 baskets, at 20 cent^, 

 $45.20. 



