SOUTil KENNEBfiC SOCIETY. • 289 



J. Hutching, for R H. Gardiner, grew one-hundred and fifty-five 

 bushels potatoes, on a clayey loam, per acre, plowed up from grass, 

 eight inches deep, and adding four cords horse manure ; cultivated 

 and hoed twice ; at first hoeing gave a handful ashes to each hill ; 

 hills three feet apart. (His application was not made in season, and 

 so ftiiled of first premium.) 



Oats. Thomas J. Twycross of Dresden, obtained premium on a 

 crop of oats grown on an acre of clay loam, which is light and plia- 

 ble. The subsoil is eighteen inches below the surface and is of a 

 clayey character. The ground is of light color ; is free from stone 

 and produced the previous year corn and potatoes. The soil was 

 plowed to the depth of seven inches, and five bushels of oats were 

 sown ; no manure being applied to the land. At the middle of 

 August, when the straw was nearly ripe, the oats were harvested. 



Cost of crop. 



Plowing, &c., $3 50 



Seed, 2 50 



Harvesting, 1 50 



Thrashing, 3 50 



.$11 00 



Value of crop. 



50 bushels of oats, .$25 00 



Ig ton straw, 10 00 



$35 00 

 11 00 



Profit, |24 00 



Mangolds. Aaron Hoag of Gardiner, obtained premium on a 

 crop of mangold wurtzel beets, grown on one-fourth acre of clay 

 loam, of which the greater part is light and easily Avorked. The 

 soil is of a yellow color, and is generally free from stone. The sub- 

 soil is clay, and is eighteen inches below the surface of the soil. 

 Corn was raised on the land th^ previous year. The soil this year 

 was plowed to the depth of seven inches, and harrowed well. About 

 six loads of manure (cords) and seventy-five pounds superphosphate 

 of lime were added. On the first w^eek in June, sowed four pounds 

 of seed, without any previous preparation, in drills, by machine, 

 eighteen inches apart. On the last of October, harvested the crop, 

 which yielded eight hundred and thirty-two bushels, (sixty-five 

 pounds per bushel.) Consider the leaves as fodder, worth half the 

 cost of cultivation. Think this beet is the most profitable crop that 

 can be grown. Boil them, and adding a little meal, mash them up 

 for sheep and swine. At present, feeding four hogs upon them, and 

 n^ver saw hogs do so well. 

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