WASHINGTON COUNTY SOCIETY. 



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Carrots. Isaac Shields, 213 bushels on one-fourth acre; land 

 manured with hog manure and guano. 



Wm, D. Dana, 200 bushels on 38 square rods. 



Field Beets. William D. Dana, 80 bushels Golden field beets on 

 16| rods — equal to 775 bushels per acre : 



" The soil upon which it grew was gravelly loam, and has been 

 in grass for several years till 1857, when it was used for a hog- 

 yard. In the spring of '59, spaded eighteen inches deep, after 

 spreading a thick coat of manure from the hog pen ; three rows 

 manui'ed from the house slop sewer, and three rows where the ma- 

 nure was applied as a top dressing, yielded equally well with the 

 others. Weeded and thinned to ten inches apart in the rows, and 

 vacancies filled by transplanting when the plants were four inches 

 high. The rows were thirty inches apart." 



Statement of Hugh Porter. 



Raised two hundred and eighty-two bushels of rutabagas on 

 seventy rods of land. Greensward, plowed in the fall of 1858 ; 

 manured in the drills with compost made of hog manure, muck and 

 Plaster of Paris — the compost covered thr^e inches deep, then 

 leveled smooth and applied a small portion of phosphate of lime 

 before sowing the seed. Weighed some of the turnips — 12 and 14 

 pounds. Drills two feet apart. 



Mr. Dana, the Secretary of the Society, furnishes the following 

 notes. It is very desirable that others would furnish similar notes 

 in other localities : 



General Features of the Season. 



Apple, pear and cherry in blossom, 25th. First 

 AVhite and red clover in flower, 20th. Orchard 



Mat — First note of frogs, 20 th 

 dandelion, 10th. 



JcKE — First ripe strawberries, 10th 

 grass headed out, 4th. 



September — Frost, 7th. Ice, 17th. 



Grass and grain crops good, and harvested in fine order. 



Early planted root crojis good. 



Late planted root crops light — as after July 4th till Inst of August, very little rain fell 



Common potatoes — good crop, ;ind of good quality. 



White Blue Nose — light crop, and superior. 



