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(potato measure.) Sixteen bushels of turnips were raised on 

 the half acre lot, that were grown with the carrots, and no ac- 

 count made of them in the carrot measure. The whole pro- 

 duct of the two lots was fifteen tons six hundred and one 

 pounds of carrots on three quarters of an acre and five rods of 

 land. This, at $11 per ton, which was offered, delivered, 

 amounts to $168 30. Seven tons were sold at the above rate, 

 and the balance was stored for my own stock. 



I will here offer some reasons why my crop has not been so 

 large as in some past seasons. In the first place, my land was 

 not sufficiently mellow the 1st or 10th of May, to admit of the 

 seed being sowed at that time, and it was not put in until the 

 7th of June. If the land had been dry and mellow as early as 

 the 7th of May, and the crop had had one month more to ma- 

 ture in, I think it would have reached one thousand bushels per 

 acre. It will be remembered that the land on which these two 

 crops grew, was grass in the spring of 1848, and ploughed un- 

 usually deep, so that the sod was not disturbed that season ; 

 and at the first ploughing last spring it was found quite unyield- 

 ing, and unfit to receive the seed so early as I could have 

 wished. The land is now in fine condition, as no labor was 

 spared to keep it free from weeds and other useless plants. 



As to the relative value of the different kinds of roots for 

 stock, I estimate them as follows : — When good hay is worth 

 $12 per ton, corn 75 cents per bushel, carrots are worth 30 

 cents per bushel, potatoes 25, sugar beets 18, ruta baga 16, 

 round turnips 12^. By this estimate it may be inferred that 

 roots are cheapest to feed to our common stock of cattle, horses 

 or hogs against corn at the above price. If this estimate be 

 correct, may it not be inferred that the whole product, say 

 $59 22, for carrots and $15 33 for the twenty bushels of beets 

 and turnips, and growth of trees on my forty-five rods of land 

 was at least a remunerating crop ? 



The root crop to me is of importance and has been for years, 

 — of that same importance that the farmer of Marshfield said it 

 was to Old England, viz., that she could not pay her interest 

 money the second year, if her turnip crop should fail. My 

 roots the present season will be of more value to me than all 



