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ten to fourteen dollars per tun, for horses and otter purposes ; but 

 those farmers who feed them out to stock, consider them about equal 

 to English hay." 



FROJI S. r. MAYBERKY, CAfE ELIZABETH. 



" There are some farmers here who raise forty tons of carrots. Aver- 

 age yield per acre, about nine hundred bushels. Price last year, ten 

 dollars per ton. 



This year I imported from Europe, a few packages of 'Golden Beet 

 Seed.' The beets cook finely. I should think the product per acre 

 would exceed that of carrots by one-third. It is said of them, that 

 they make more milk than either meal or carrots. If any one wishes 

 to try and see for themselves, I will furnish the beets to them to set 

 out for seed, if they will give the result through some medium, that 

 agriculturists may learn Avhether it may be cultivated with profit as 

 a field crop for cattle." 



FROM AVILLIAM BUXTOtt. 



" All farmers in North Yarmouth cultivate some roots for stock, but 

 they are not often manured. They probably yield, say from five hun- 

 dred to a thousand bushels per acre. Worth about twenty cents per 

 bushel. A great diff'erence of opinion exists as to their value as com- 

 pared with hay." 



FROM FKANKEIN COUNTY. 



*' By some means or for some reason, carrots have taken the lead in 

 root culture among us, excepting the potato, and are highly esteemed, 

 and fed to all kinds of stock, with straw and other coarse fodder. It- 

 is believed, that one peck, with plenty of straw, for a grown asiiraal, is 

 equal to the usual daily allowan&e of good hay." 



Manures. 



There are few subjects ■which claim a greater degree of con- 

 sideration at the hands of the farmer, than that of manure. I 

 am aware that in some of the newer portions of the State little 

 or no attention is given to it, from the fact that the Tirgin soil 

 yields abmidantly thus far, v/ithout its application, but all so 

 situated should profit by the uniform experience of those who 

 Lave preceded them in the culture of such lands, and although 

 no immediate necessity be felt, they should husband all fertiliz- 

 ers with care, and so leave to their children an unexhausted 

 inheritance. 



