NORFOLK SOCIETY. 283 



Root Crops. 



The committee (A. D. Williams, Jr., Chairman,) have 

 awarded to 



B. Y. French, for the best conducted experiment, in rais- 

 ing sugar beets, premium, . . . . ^4 00 



B. Y. French, for the best conducted experiment, in rais- 

 ing carrots, premium, . . . . 4 00 



B. Y. French, for the best conducted experiment, in rais- 

 ing mangel-wurzel, premium, . . . 4 00 



B. Y. French, for the best conducted experiment, in rais- 

 ing flat turnips, premium, . . . . 4 00 



Wm. B. Kingsbury, for the best conducted experiment, 



in raising parsnips, premium, . . . 4 00 



Benjamin V. French's Statement. 



I make application for premiimis, on the culture and yield of 

 the following root crops : the mangel-wurzel, sugar beet, car- 

 rots, and flat turnips. The mangel-wurzel, sugar beet, and 

 carrots, were grown in an orchard. The land was manured 

 with about twelve cords of strong compost to the acre. My 

 principal object was, to benefit some pear trees, which had been 

 neglected. The land had been broken up in the sod, the year 

 previous. This year, early in May, the manure had been 

 spread broadcast, and ploughed in ; harrowed, cross-ploughed, 

 and levelled with a light harrow. It was then ridged, and 

 raked, and the seed was put in with a drill-barrow, on the 19th 

 and 21st of May. They were hoed carefully, as soon as they 

 were up, which was about the 2.5th June. They were soon 

 after weeded, and thinned out, and a final hoeing given on the 

 20th, 23d, and 24th July, and were harvested on the last week 

 of October. It should be borne in mind, that no crop will suc- 

 ceed as well, subject to the draught of the roots of trees, as 

 they will in a clear field. 



