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shoal and barrowed, planting in hills the 1st of June, ten bushels 

 of seed, and harvesting on the last of October. 



Ebenezer Ham grew four hundred and sixty-five bushels of ruta 

 bagas on three-fourths of an acre of sward land, turned over in May, 

 and manured by spreading six cords of stable manure and harrow- 

 incr in ; it was then ridsied and the rows sown three feet apart, 10th 

 of June ; thinned out and hoed. Had they not suflfered severely 

 from worms, he thinks there would have been upwards of one thou- 

 sand bushels per acre. 



John L. Davis raised three hundred bushels of purple top ruta 

 bagas on half an acre of sandy loam ; in grass previously, yielding 

 half a ton to the acre ; plowed ten inches deep and added three 

 cords of long manure, applying it in the furrows, covering the ma- 

 nure three inches deep. 



Samuel Chadbourne of Greene, raised two hundred and eighty- 

 four bushels of ruta bagas on half an acre of stony loam : applied 

 two and one-half cords of new manure ; plowed ten inches deep. 

 Mr. Chadbourne says: "My method of raising this vegetable is, 

 first, to plow and harrow the ground well, then furrow it deep about 

 three feet apart ; next, to drop the manure in drills, cover my ma- 

 nure quite deep and sow on my seed, rake it in. After the plants 

 are large enough, I hoe them, thinning them out so as to leave them 

 about ten inches apart." 



Jacob Golden raised one hundred and sixty-three bushels of car- 

 rots on thirty and one-half square rods of light sandy loam ; plowed 

 ten inches deep, and applied three cords of barn manure. 



Jesse Davis grew one hundred and fifty bushels of orange carrots 

 on one-fourth of an acre ; plowed in about three and one-half cords 

 long manure ; land a sandy loam. 



William R. Wright raised twenty-eight bushels of beets on one- 

 sixteenth of an acre of clayey loam, on which turnips had been 

 raised the previous year ; worked ten inches deep ; no manure ap- 

 plied, save a slight wash from the barn. 



Sewell Carville grew twenty- two bushels of parsnips on one- 

 sixteenth acre of gravelly soil ; vrorkcd one foot deep ; the land had 



