ROOT CROPS. 165 



Statement of Lewis Leonard. 



Turnips. — My turnips grew on forty square rods of dark 

 loam, somewhat sandy, which was in grass in 1873, top- 

 dressed lightly with compost, at the rate of about three cords to 

 the acre ; in grass without manure in 1874 ; ploughed once six 

 inches deep in the spring of 1875, turning under three cords of 

 coarse manure ; harrowed four times and raked down smooth ; 

 planted between the 25th and 28th of June, with a machine, 

 in rows about two feet apart, using nearly a half a pound of 

 the yellow Swedish turnip seed, many of which were wasted 

 throuirh a derauoferaent of the machine ; thinned to about a 



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foot apart in the rows, and hoed four times. Product : 199^ 

 bushels of turnips, or at the rate of 798 bushels per acre, and 

 a large quantity of tops, which, I think, are of considerable 

 value as food for stock, especially for milch cows, if fed 

 immediately after milking. 



Expense of Crop. 



Ploughing, etc, $4 00 



Manure, 24 00 



Seed and sowing, ........ 1 50 



Cultivation, ......... 6 00 



Harvesting, ......... 8 00 



Total, $43 50 



Statement of Spencer Leonard. 



Swedish Turnips. — The land on which my turnips grew, 

 containing forty square rods of sandy loam, was mowed in 

 1873, and also in 1874, in June, after which it was ploughed, 

 manured with 150 pounds of the Brighton fertilizer, and 

 sowed with Hungarian grass, from which a good crop was 

 obtained. This year it was ploughed the last of May, har- 

 rowed and bushed ; and, just before sowing, was well bushed 

 a second time, thus killing a large proportion of the weeds 

 and much lessening the cost of weeding and subsequent 

 cultivation. Planted, June 25, with a seed-sower, in drills 

 about thirty-four inches apart, using one-fourth of a pound of 

 seed of the yellow Swedish turnip. The seed came up very 



