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iDack." I failed to thin them out as much as should have been done, conse- 

 quently there were many small ones, but my cow had no objeclion to size 

 if the quantity was only there. 



On this piece there were twenty-seven rows, each seven rods long, from 

 which I got thirty-three bushels, or about three hundred bushels to the acre. 



In the spring of 1881 we sowed a piece of ground five rods long by two 

 wide, this being the third crop, but it had been manured the year before. 

 I was careful not to have them so thick in the row. The result was very 

 fine specimens; net result thirty-two bushels, or at the rate of five hundred 

 and twelve bushels to the acre. 



Those two years are the only ones that I have measured ground and 

 bushels, so as to be able to give a correct account, but I have raised carrots 

 ■every year, and the longer I work at it the better I am satisfied with the 

 result. 



The White Belgian is my favorite variety for field culture. 



Rutabagas I like to sow in drills three feet apart, but I have the best suc- 

 cess planting them in hills three feet apart and cultivating with horse each 

 way. I thin them out to two or three in the hill and have the ground 

 manured the year before. I had specimens this year grown in this way 

 weighing twelve pounds and very fine grained. 



White turnips I do not consider of value as a forage crop, although they 

 are productive. I had some specimens this year that would measure ten 

 inches in diameter and have seen larger than that grown on the plains. 



Mr. Metcalf : I have some lots in the village of Cheney which I use for 

 potatoes, roots and all sorts of garden produce, and as to raising roots I think 

 we can beat Ingham county, where I came from. I raised some radishes as big 

 around as my thigh, but they were hollow. I think this ground will raise 

 most anything that you can put in if it is well taken care of; but the fact 

 is, we don't farm it faithfully. If they should farm in Ingham county as we 

 do here they could not live on it. They have not the lumber business there. 

 A man comes here poor, and to make a living he goes to the woods with his 

 ax and saw, and consequently neglects his farm, and he can't raise crops 

 without labor. I have raised 100 bushels of potatoes on an acre of ground 

 in rows one way, one foot apart in the row. The soil needs a little nursing 

 -at first and pays for manuring. 



Mr. Niles : I set out strawberry plants last year in rows three feet apart 

 and sowed between the rows rutabagas and had a nice crop. On four acres 

 I sowed to flat turnips I had some 300 or 400 bushels. The present season I 

 had two acres and a quarter in turnips which yielded about 500 bushels. 



Mr. Van Buskirk : There has nothing been said as to the variety of pota- 

 toes best adapted to this soil. In our section of the country the Early Rose 

 seem to be going back, they turn red in streaks inside, and I have abandoned 

 them. 



Mr. O'Dell : I have raised the Early Rose for ten years, and the Late Rose. 

 The Late Rose has the red spots more than the Early Rose. I don't think it 

 hurts the potatoes; I think it is a good potato. For the last two years I 

 have raised the Beauty of Hebron. Last year I plowed up clover sod and 

 planted it to potatoes and I don't think you ever saw nicer potatoes than I 

 raised. The Beauty of Hebron is a better potato for the table than the Early 

 Rose. I sow my turnip seed with my clover in June; I mix them and it 

 don't cost me anything to raise my turnips, only what it costs me for raising 



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