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if I were going to put in a crop of roots after a crop of ruta- 

 bagas, and thought that six cords of manure would be sufficient 

 if following a crop of carrots, I should be very certain to put in 

 eight. I think that, for succeeding crops, ruta-bagas are very 

 much more injurious than other root crops. 



Mr. Flint. Suppose you wanted to lay a piece down to grass, 

 what would be the effect ? 



Mr. Ware. I have no experience in that way ; but I know 

 that if a piece of land is laid down after cabbages, which are of 

 the same character as the turnip, it succeeds admirably. 



Mr. Hubbard. I had a little experience in that line, in rais- 

 ing late cabbages and turnips on a field which contained 132 

 rods. It was highly manured for a good cabbage and turnip 

 crop, and the next year I put on wheat ; and on those 182 rods 

 of ground I had twenty-four and one-half bushels of very hand- 

 some spring wheat ; and I never perceived any difference 

 between the turnip and cabbage part of the field. At any rate, 

 the crop of wheat was rather extra upon that amount of ground. 



Mr. Ware. Did any part of your field of wheat extend 

 beyond these 132 rods ? 



Mr. Hubbard. Yes, sir. 



Mr. Ware. Allow me to ask if that piece where the cabbages 

 and turnips were grown had been more heavily manured than 

 the other part of the field where the wheat was ? 



Mr. Hubbard. I was only speaking of this part that contained 

 the cabbages and turnips, where the land was measured. The 

 wheat was the largest and best where the cabbages and turnips 

 were, and I attributed it to the manure. 



Mr. Smith, of Sunderland. I should like to ask about the 

 proper time of sowing mangolds and beets ? 



Mr. Ware. Mangolds I should sow as late as carrots, and 

 also beets, if raised for stock ; but I do not raise beets for stock. 

 What beets I raise are for the early market, usually, and some- 

 times show beets. Beets for winter family use should be sown 

 as late as from the twenty-fifth of May to the first of June, in 

 order to be tender, sweet roots. We don't use beets for stock ; 

 we use mangolds and carrots in preference. 



Mr. CLEMENT. I wish to ask now, whether you have any 

 particular method of keeping seeds, or ever have occasion to 

 keep them more than a year — carrot seeds, for instance ? 



