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cleared of stones, and dug up twelve inches 

 deep, on the 10th of June last; it was then co 

 vered by a mixture of ten bushels of charcoal 

 dust and twenty bushels of black swamp mould, 

 which was well harrowed in. About the 9th of 

 July it was sown with your Ruta Baga in drills 

 of twenty inches apart, the turnips being ten 

 inches distant from each other. They came up 

 badly and were weeded out on the 10th of 

 August. On the 15th of August a table-spoon 

 ful of ashes was put round every turnip, which 

 operation was repeated on the 20th of Septem 

 ber. The ground was kept perfectly clean 

 through the whole season. Six seeds of the 

 common turnip were by accident dropped into 

 the patch, and received the same attention as 

 the rest. These common turnips weighed two 

 pounds a piece. The whole yield of the Ruta 

 Baga was three bushels, each turnip weighing 

 from four to eight pounds. The roots pene 

 trated about twelve inches into the ground, al 

 though the season was remarkably dry. 



1054. A piece of rich, moist, loamy land, 

 containing four square rods, was ploughed 

 twice in June, and the seeds of your Ruta 

 Baga sown on the 4th of July in broad cast, and 

 kept clean through the season. This patch pro 

 duced twenty-Jive bushels of turnips, each turnip 

 weighing from four to nine pounds. This, you 



