ROOT CROPS. 



105 



Turnips. — The piece of ground on which I raised my turnips 

 has been down to grass three years. In July we mowed off a 

 crop of hay. July 10, ploughed with double plough, nine inch- 

 es deep. The piece contains sixty-eight and eleven-sixteenths 

 rods, from which we took two hundred and seventy-seven bush- 

 els. Half the crop is the long turnip, and half the English flat 

 turnip. I use a seed-sower, and a small cast-steel plough be- 

 tween the rows. 



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Expenses : — 

 July 10. Ploughing, .... 



Preparing the ground, 

 1|- pt. seed, .... 

 8 loads of scrapings, harrowed in. 

 Sowing seed, .... 

 Thinning, four days, , . 

 Ploughing between rows, three hours, 

 Harvesting crop. 

 Taxes and interest, . 



Aug. 1 

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Nov. G 



Cr. 



By 277 bushels, 20 cts., 



Profit, 



Sunderland. 



$35 20 



HAMPSHIRE. 



Statement of Nathaniel Smith. 



Potatoes. — My potatoes grew on eighty-eight rods of sandy 

 loam or sandy knoll, which bore rye in 1853 and 1854, without 

 manure. Last May, I ploughed in seven loads of coarse ma- 

 nure ; and, after two or three weeks, I harrowed it over, pul- 

 verizing the soil and destroying the weeds. May 30, I planted 

 about four bushels of Wood's seedlings, and put about eight 

 bushels of ashes in the hills. I hoed twice. 



Value of crop : — 

 135 bushels, at 33 cents, 



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$44 55 



