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turnip-seed, using a seed-sower ; cultivated twice with a 

 cultivator, and hoed once with hand-hoes. Product, 10,720 

 pounds, or 178±- bushels, being at the rate of 714| bushels 

 per acre. Expenses : ploughing, etc., $2 ; manure, $12 ; seed 

 and planting, $1 ; cultivation, $3, harvesting, $4 ; total, $22. 



Statement of Spencer Leonard, of Bridgewater. 

 The land on which I raised my turnips, containing one- 

 quarter of an acre, was mowed in 1872, in 1873, and again 

 in 1874, yielding at the rate of about three-fourths of a ton 

 per acre. About June 25, the present season, immediately 

 after taking off the hay, it was ploughed about seven inches 

 deep, turning in five loads of compost manure ; about sixteen 

 bushels of leached ashes and seventy-five pounds of the 

 Brighton fertilizer were spread upon the furrows and thor- 

 oughly harrowed in; planted July 1, to yellow Swedish 

 turnips, in rows thirty-four inches apart, planting with a seed- 

 sower and using about three ounces of seed ; hoed three times, 

 using a horse-cultivator the same number of times. Product : 

 125^- bushels, being at the rate of 500| bushels per acre. 

 Expenses: ploughing and harrowing, $1.50; manure, $14: 

 seed and plantiug, 75 cts. ; cultivation, $5.25; harvesting, 

 $5 ; total, $26.50. It will be perceived that this is the second 

 crop taken from the land the present season. 



