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and planted to carrots and onions. The present year, seven 

 loads of old manure were applied to the same ground. On the 

 portion sowed to onions, he burned straw. After the plants 

 came up, watered them with the leach of hen manure. It .was 

 plowed about ten inches deep. Seed was of red onions, and 

 white and yellow carrots. The drills were twelve inches apart, 

 and the plants thinned to about three inches. The ground 

 was often stirred, and the weeds kept down. 



Fruits. 

 Peleg C. Haskell received the first premium on apples, of the 

 New York Russet variety. The trees are about twenty years 

 old, grafted on seedling stocks, and in the tops while they were 

 young. The soil on which they grew is a deep gravelly loam. 

 When young the trees were white-washed, but on subsequent 

 experiment, found washing with weak lye preferable. The land 

 on which they grow has been pastured about one third of the 

 time, and manured from the barn-yard and mowed the rest of 

 the time. 



Crors. 

 Peleg C. Haskell obtained the first premium on rye, and the 

 third on oats. These crops were grown on a clay loam, but 

 few stone and these slate. The soil is light agd friable, from 

 one to two feet deep, of a greyish color, underlaid by a sub- 

 soil partly clay and partly a hard gravel. It was a sward, 

 plowed about six inches deep in the fall of 1855, on which the 

 oats were raised. The rye land was planted to corn and pota- 

 toes the previous year. No manure was applied. The variety 

 of seed was the white rye and Scotch oats. It was sowed 

 broadcast, at the rate of one and one-half bushels of rye, and 

 four bushels of oats per acre. Harvested about the 20th of 

 August, and cut before fully ripe. Produce was twenty-one 

 bushels of rye, which weighed eleven hundred and seventy-six 

 pounds ; and forty-four and one-half bushels of oats, which 

 weighed fourteen hundred and sixty-eight pounds. The straw 

 of both crops was three tons. 



