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20 bushels of buckwheat, at 75 cts., - - 15 00 

 75 bushels of potatoes, (this crop was almost a faihire,) 



at 50 cts., - - - - - 37 50 

 20 bbls. winter apples, (this crop was also nearly a fail- 

 ure,) at $1 50, - - - - 30 00 

 200 pounds butter, at 18 cts., - - - 36 00 

 Received for pasturing and grass, - - - 80 00 

 And another item may be added, which is properly an 



offset against labor — improvements this season, worth 350 00 



$1631 90 

 Brookfield, Nov., 1850. 



Root Crops. 



The following are the entries for premiums for root crops : — 



Root Crops. — Harvey Dodge, of Sutton, for one quarter of 

 an acre of beets ; Benjamin N. Childs, of Worcester, for one 

 fourth acre of ruta bagas ; Harvey Dodge, of Sutton, one 

 acre of carrots ; Harvey Dodge, of Sutton, William S. Lincoln, 

 Charles White, and Samuel Perry, of Worcester, each one 

 half acre of carrots ; Harvey Dodge, of Sutton, William S. 

 Lincoln, Samuel Perry, William A Wheeler, and Benjamin N. 

 Childs, of Worcester, each one quarter of an acre of carrots. 

 About the first of November, the committee visited the several 

 fields, in order that they might see them before they Avere dug, 

 and might form some opinion of the relative merits of the sev- 

 eral claims from their own inspection. They commenced with 

 the view of Mr. Perry's field of four acres, which had been 

 severely affected by the rust. They then proceeded to see the 

 field of the chairman, which had not apparently been injured 

 by the rust, but the roots were not so large as those of the last 

 year on the same ground ; this being the fourth consecutive 

 year that carrots had been grown on the same land, which has 

 each year been manured with green stable manure direct from 

 the barn, and ploughed under, except the first year, when the 

 land was dressed with guano, and the crops have always been 

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