284 NORFOLK SOCIETY. 



The yield, as per vouchers, is as follows : — The roots, being 

 freed from hair-tops and earth, were weighed, and computed at 

 fifty-six pounds per bushel. 



Mangel-wurzel on a half acre, four hundred and twenty-one 

 and six fifty-sixths bushels. 



Sugar beet, on a half acre, five hundred and two and forty- 

 four fifty-sixths bushels. 



Carrots, white and orange, on one-half acre, three hundred 

 seventy and thirty-three fifty-sixths bushels. The flat turnips 

 were grown where peas had just been taken off, and had no 

 other manure than was unexhausted by the pea crop. The 

 ground was ploughed, and harrowed flat, and the seed was sown 

 by a drill-barrow on the 7th of August, hoed August 18th, 

 thinned out and hoed again August 31st, and harvested Nov. 

 14th. These were grown in an orchard ; the tops and roots 

 were carefully taken off" ; weight, fifty-six pounds to the bushel. 

 The yield on a half acre is two hundred and sixty-seven and 

 thirty-eight fifty-sixths bushels. The drought was a great in- 

 jury to the yield of the carrots, mangel-wurzel, and sugar 

 beets, and the flat turnips were harvested too early for their 

 greatest yield, considering the time they were sown, being 

 about a month later than is usual. 



Braintree, November 15, 1849. 



William B. Kingshivry^ s Stateme'iit. 



I have raised, upon 10,995 feet of ground, fifty-eight barrels 

 of closely packed parsnips. The piece of land upon which 

 they grew, was trenched four years ago this fall, and parsnips 

 have been planted every year since ; each year, I have had a 

 greater crop than the year previous. The manure was ploughed 

 in, in the fall, and consisted of manure from the hog-sty, where 

 I had put a large quantity of sand and horse manure. The 

 exact quantity of manure put upon the land, I cannot give, but 

 it was well manured. 



RoxBURY, Novciiiher 14, 1849. 



