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barrow, with pins projecting from the rim two inches, and 

 placed eight inches apart, which is pas-sed along on the top of 

 the ridge, and the seeds dropped by hand into the holes marked 

 by the pins. They may then be covered by drawing a rake- 

 head along the top of the ridge. Too much care cannot be 

 taken to perform all operations in planting, where the vegetable 

 is afterwards to be cultivated, in straight lines. The work is 

 by this means greatly facilitated. 



Since making the above account, I have received a statement 

 of a crop of sugar-beets grown this season on Nahant, Essex 

 county, by Frederick Tudor, which I have no hesitation in lay- 

 ing before the agricultural community, though it may seem out 

 of place. I shall give the account with which Mr. Tudor has 

 favored me in his own words. 



" In the spring of 1840, 1 caused about an acre of land of the 

 pasture lands of this place (Nahant) to be fenced in and trench- 

 ed 20 inches deep. The ground had never before had an agri- 

 cultural instrument of any kind in it. It was a pasture of in- 

 different soil, with many stones in and upon it. 



" The trenching consisted in reversing the soil for 20 inches 

 in depth with the spade, and afterwards putting in all the stones 

 (which were found) in the bottom; three inches of muscle- 

 mud were put on them, followed by the turf and best of the 

 soil ; then two inches of rock-weed and kelps fresh from the 

 shores, or cut from the rocks ; then the less rich part of the soil 

 and more muscle-mud — the top left with the poorest and most 

 gravelly soil. In all, there were about eight inches in perpen- 

 dicular height of manure added to the soil, which, when press- 

 ed, might have been five to six inches in perpendicular height ; 

 so that the land had been moved with the spade a depth of lit- 

 tle more than two feet. In the spring of 1840 it was sown with 

 sugar-beets, but did not do very well, the top-soil being extreme- 

 ly poor. In the spring of 1841 I had it ploughed about six 

 inches deep, but the plough did not reach any of the richer 

 parts of the soil below, exhibiting little more than yellow loam 

 and gravel. I caused 93 rods of this to be again sown with 



