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tilizer applied broadcast, — six bags (thirty dollars' worth) of 

 Stockbridge fertilizer, and no other. The land was ri lged 

 about two feet and a half apart, and the seed sown upon the 

 ridge with a Harrington seed-sower about the 20th of May. 

 They were cultivated with a horse four times, and hoed three 

 times after cultivating. 



Cost. 



Ploughing land $1 50 



Harrowing and crushing ........ 1 00 



Ridging ........... 50 



Sowing ........... 50 



Seed, ten pounds, twenty cents per pound .... 2 00 



Cultivating four times * ....... . 2 00 



Hoeing three times l . 4 50 



Weeding and thinning 1 60 



Harvesting 7 00 



Labor $20 00 



Fertilizer 30 00 



$50 60 

 Analysis. 



Per cent. 



Marrow 4.02 



In water soluble 13.13 



Water 82.85 



100.00 



Juice. 



Per cent. 



Sugar 12.00 



Water 86.33 



Ash .78 



Organic non-sugar .89. 



100 00 



[Statement of P. Stedman & Son.] 



Our crop of sugar-beets was grown upon one hundred and 

 ten rods of ground. Perhaps we can best describe the soil 

 upon which they were grown by saying it is of medium 

 texture for Connecticut-river land in this vicinity, being less 

 sandy than that lying near the bank of the river, yet more 

 friable than is most of that lying farthest from it. Previ- 

 ous crops were grass in 1876, and some years previous; 1877 



1 The exact amount paid, as it was hired. 



