ROOT CROPS. 165 



Value of seed, $0 60 



Harvesting, 3 00 



Interest on land, 1 50 



$28 00 



Net profit, $48 00 



The corn cost thirty-two cents seven mills per bushel ; now 

 if we subtract one-half the expense of the manure, as is the 

 practice of many that contend for the premiums, it would have 

 cost but twenty-one cents three mills per bushel. My object in 

 this experiment is to prove that the largest crops are not always 

 the most profitable. 



ROOT CEOPS. 



ESSEX. 



From the Report of the Committee. 

 The attention bestowed upon the cultivation of root crops and 

 vegetables in the county during the last season, has been 

 somewhat modified by the difficulty experienced in obtaining 

 that kind of labor which is adapted to them. Our farmers have 

 long since abandoned all doubts with regard to their profit, and 

 the benefit which they confer upon the animals fed upon them. 

 During the last few years they have been very generally intro- 

 duced into every section of the county ; not perhaps so largely 

 as we could have wished, but extensively enough to indicate an 

 increasing appreciation of their value. The onion crop of Essex 

 County has become one of the well-known proofs of the profit 

 of judicious and skilful cultivation. The carrot crop has become 

 in some regions one of the staple products of the farm and a 

 very considerable article of merchandise among us. Our dairy- 

 men have learned the value of the mangel wurzel. And all 

 who find it necessary to winter store cattle on rather inferior 

 fodder, have become satisfied that the turnip crop can do 

 more than anything else to increase the nutritive qualities of 

 hard fare. 



