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hundred and twenty-five bushels on half an acre. Value of tur- 

 nips at residence, ten cents a bushel. Thinks the value of the 

 tops and the improvement of the land equals the cost of manure. 

 Plowing and harrowing twice, . . $6 00 



Cultivating and hoeing twice, . . 10 00 



Thinning, . . . . . 6 00 



Harvesting, . . • . 8 00 



Eaising and harvesting, . . . $30 00 



Nathan Pattangall certified to a crop of beans, grown on a 

 loam, which is coarse, friable and light. The soil is about three 

 feet deep, and yellow. The subsoil is hard and gravelly. The 

 previous cultivation was manure spread and plowed in, and 

 a crop of corn and beans. The plowing for the previous crop 

 was eleven inches. The manure for this crop was spread 

 before plowing, at the rate of teii cords to the acre. The 

 manure worth $2 a cord. The beans were planted the first of 

 June, in drills two and a half feet apart, at the rate of one 

 bushel to the acre. The crop was hoed but once. On the last 

 of September harvested forty bushels to the acre, whicli were 

 worth, at his residence, $2.50 per bushel. 



George 0. Lincoln certifies to a crop of beets, grown on 

 sandy soil, light, fine and friable, of a dark color and two feet 

 deep. The subsoil is open. In 1854 it was plowed, harrowed 

 and sowed with grain; in 1855 applied compost and cropped 

 with cabbages. In 1855 planted on the 15th of May, in drills 

 three and a half feet apart ; long blood beet seed, three-fourths 

 of a pound to the acre; hoed three times, and the produce was 

 four hundred bushels to the acre. Cost per acre, $10. 



N. P. Pattangall certified to a crop of ruta bagas, grown on 

 clayey loam, resting on clay subsoil. The land had for ten 

 years been in grass ; plowed eight inches deep, harrowed and 

 furrowed, and applied twelve cords of manure composted from 

 sheep, hog and barn-yard manure, and mixed with swamp muck 

 and rock-weed; planted the last of June, with two pounds of 

 ruta baga seed to the acre, in drills three feet apart, with no 

 previous preparation of seed, and no after culture except thin- 

 ning. Produce, five hundred and thirty-three bushels per acre.. 

 The crop was harvested on the first of November. Mr. P. does 

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