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on sides and face) so as to leave but one plant in four or 

 five inches of space, as also to take the earth from the re- 

 maining plants After this first hoeing, the drills with Hog- 

 manure and ashes brgan and continued to take Hie lead; 

 those with neither manure nor top-dressing, and those not 

 hoed, very diminutive in comparison. 



The 20. h July, harrowed again between the drills, and 

 the 26th, hoed out the field a second and last time. 



The 1st August, began to thin them out by hand (at 

 which time the turnips were in size from two and a halt to 

 three and a half inches, excep those not manured and 

 those not hoed, both which were quite small) and we thus 

 continued to thin out every few days, to feed to the stock; 

 in this manner, sixty-three bushels were used, previous to 

 the examination of the fit-id, in the first wetk of October f 

 by Messrs. Strong and Osborn, for the purpose of ascer- 

 taining its produce, which they estimated to be eight hun- 

 dred bushels. 



On the 5:h November, began to take in the crop, and we 

 had twenty -Jive ox-cartloads, which we estimated at good 

 thirty bushels each; hoy weighed about forty pounds the 

 bushel, making at If ast fifteen tons produced from the acre. 

 The average weight ot the turnips is, I think, from four 

 and a half to six pounds ; several weighed ten pounds, and 

 one thirteen and a quarter pounds. The expense of cultiva- 

 tion has been, as at foot, seventeen dollars seventy-five cents. 



Ploughing 1 , harrowing 1 , and drilling 1 for crop, g-eting- out and 



spreading- manure - g7 50 



Seed, and rolling- - .50 



Lime and ashes ... 4 



Sowing lime and ashes - 25 



Hai rowing- between drills twice - 1 



Hoeing and clearing-, a Man and Boy, twice 4 50 



g!7 75 



They were harvested and got in, in two days and a half, 

 by a Man and a Boy, with an ox-team. 



The satisfactory result of this experiment (entirely novel 

 in this part of the country) may, I hope, induce many of my 

 Brother Farmers to turn at least a small portion of their 

 eld natural grass-land into turnip-fields. The trial will not 

 require much extra labor or expense, and experience will 

 prove to them that they can, not only keep their stock 

 cheaper as well as better; but they can raise a much greater 

 number, with a given quantity of land ; besides the incal- 

 culable advantage of pucing land in good heart for grain, 

 especially wheat. 



Necessity will ere long oblige us to extend our green- 

 croflsj for we may be assured that, without them, we can 



