5^g ^ BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



less, and turnips more uncertain. Their value, wlien compared witli 

 hay is, that when hay is worth fifteen dollars per ton, carrots are worth 

 thirty cents per hushcl; beets and turnips some less." 



FROM YORK COUNTY. 



"Carrots are raised on a small scale. Farmers raise from fifty to 

 three hundred bushels. Mr. Philip Libby showed me a patch of land 

 on which he stated he raised three hundred bushels. He thought the 

 piece contained one-third of an acre ; but I thought it would fall short 

 of that. He considers them more valuable than the best English hay, 

 weight for weight. Mv. Samuel L. Smith thinks one thousand bushels 

 may be raised per acre, and he considers them very valuable for stock, 

 much superior to rutabagas. 



I raised seventy-five bushels last year, from about twenty square 

 rods in my garden, and I think I should have had a hundred, had not 

 the rust got hold of the tops before they attained their full growth. I 

 feed them to my stock with my poorest hay, straw and corn-fodder ; 

 and I think the cattle do better than on the best English hay without 

 them. Beets and rutabagas are not much cultivated for cattle. They 

 are thought to contain less nutriment than carrots, and when fed to 

 milch cows, are apt to give a disagreeable taste to the milk." 



FROM JOSEPH PARSONS. 



"Rutabagas, beets, carrots, &c., are not cultivated in Parsonsfield, as 

 a field crop, to much extent. Carrots and beets are considered to be 

 worth as much per tun as English hay. Rutabagas are not esteemed 

 so highly as food for stock." 



FROM PENOBSCOT COUNTY. 



" Some few of our people cultivate roots to some extent, as field 

 crops, except beets. Rutabagas and carrots yield on the average, about 

 five hundred bushels to the acre. Their value as compared with Eng- 

 lish hay, to be fed with hay or straw, eighty bushels of rutabagas, or 

 fifty bushels of carrots, are equal to a tun of hay." ^ 



FROM CUMBERLAND COUNTY. 



" Within the past three years, considerable has been done with re- 

 gard to beets, rutabagas, and especially carrots. The quantity raised 

 is increasing'. The average yield not known. The value last fall was 

 twelve dollars per tun. English hay fourteen dollars per tun." 



FROM CHARLES HUMPHREY, NEAR PORTLAND. 



" Rutabagas, carrots and beets, are here cultivated to considerable 

 extent, as a field crop. Large quantities are sold in Portland, for from 



