48 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Cost. 



Ploughing $1 50 



Carting and spreading twelve loads manure . . 4 ©0 



Rolling and harrowing 1 00 



Sowing ......... 1 25 



Applying fertilizer at different times ... 1 50 



Hoeing, transplanting, and thinning (fifteen days) . 18 75 



Horse for cultivating 75 



Time spent in harvesting (thirteen days and a quar- 

 ter) 13 25 



Use of team in harvesting ..... 3 00 



$45 00 



Value of twelve loads manure $20 00 



Eight hundred pounds beet-fertilizer . . . 20 00 



40 00 



$85 00 

 [Statement of Amos Sawyer.] 



The land on which the sugar-beets were raised was in very- 

 poor condition, but manured heavily with barnyard-manure. 

 The beets were hoed three times, and thinned out the second 

 hoeing. I fed them to my hogs in a raw state, and recom- 

 mend them highly for that purpose. The acre entered for 

 a premium produced 45,835 pounds of beets. 



Analysis. 



Per cent. 



Marrow 4.02 



Soluble in water 12.23 



Water < 83.75 



100.00 



Juice. 



Per cent. 



Sugar ' 9.70 



Water 87.87 



Ash .86 



Organic non-sugar » • * 1.57 



100.00 

 [Statement of H. C. Comins.] 



The land is river-soil, fine loam. In 1878 a part of it was 

 in tobacco, a part in sorghum, and a part in roots, all well 

 manured with stable-manure. This year it was ploughed 

 about eight inches deep, thoroughly harrowed, and the fer- 



