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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE 



BEETS, MAXCJELS, CARROTS, TARSXIPS, SALSIFY, LETTUCE, RADISHES, 



CABBACiE, ONIONS. SUGAR BEETS, PURPLE TOP, WHITE, 



BELLOW AND SWEDISH TURNIPS. 



Except cabbase and onions, wliicli wore jdantcd in rows 250 feet lonjr, all of the 

 crops above mentioned were sown between the rows of fruit trees and fruit bushes, 

 in jilots four by fifty feet each, three rows in each plot. All were sown on May 

 22, 23 and 24. Ten plots were entirely destroyed by cutworms, namely: The Prize 

 Purple T<>i> Swede, subse(]iiently replaced by tlie same variety June 215, the ^lannnoth 

 Lonj.' Red mangel, replaced June 25 by Jundx) Swede, the Intermediate mangel re- 

 plaeetl June 25, by Jundjo Swede, the Giant Globe mangel, replaced by Purple Top 

 Swede June 25, Scarlet Intermediate carrot, replaced June 25 by Purple Top Swede, 

 ^lammoth White carrot, rei)laced June 2() by Jumbo Swede, Giant \Vhitc ^'osges 

 carrot, replaced by Long Red table radishes and lettuce June 25, Improved Short 

 White carrot, replaced June 20 by Jumbo Swede, Danish Improved Red Top beet, 

 rci)laced June 27 by Juml»o Swede, Golden Tankard mangel, replaced June 27 by 

 Jund)o Swede. 



Specimen Turnip, yield 785 bushels per acre. 



(^ne plot of ^lammoth Long Red mangels A\as entirely destroyed by deer and the 

 following plots were partially destroyed: Beets, Eclipse and Bassano; mangel. Per- 

 fection; stock beet. Danish Inij)roved, and sugar beet, White .Silesian. 



The following plots on low. undrained ground, were partially destroyed by excessive 

 rains: Turnips, A\'hite Swede. Hartley's Bronze Top, Empress and one jjlot each of 

 Yellow Aberdeen. Swede Jumbo and Purple Toj) Swede. Including these six i>lots 

 and the five partially destroyed by deer, the entire twenty-eight plots gave a total 

 yield of 104 ^-j bushels, being a yield of about 785 bushels per acre. 



