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Mangel WurtzeL They were planted in parallel rows 

 of two feet three to four inches one way, by one foot the 

 other. On gathering in my crop of roots in the 11th 

 mo. (November) last ; I found the result, in point of 

 Weight, to be eight thousand one hundred and eighty 

 pounds ; and that the weight of leaves pulled from those 

 roots at different times through the season, amounted to 

 five thousand five hundred and ninety-five pounds. I am 

 of the opinion they would have amounted to considerably 

 more ; but in consequence of the dryness of the season, a 

 suspension of pulling the leaves took place for some 

 weeks. Although this result is below those that we have 

 accounts of, as being realized in Great Britain, yet it is 

 sufficiently great to induce me to make a further trial, 

 (should no unforeseen event turn up to prevent) on a 

 much more extensive scale, the next ensuing season. 



I have a very high opinion of this plant for farm stock, 

 particularly milch cows, not only as respects the leaves 

 for green food during the summer season ; but more par- 

 ticularly so, the cut or chopped root, during that part of 

 the year in which we are obliged to have recourse to dry 

 food. They are also an excellent esculent for the table ; 

 my family generally prefer them to the red or garden beet. 

 I also raised the last season, on twenty- three square poles 

 of ground, one hundred and ten bushels of the long 

 orange root carrot ; being at the rate of nearly eight hund- 

 red bushels to the acre. On weighing a bushel of those 

 carrots, (cut with an instrument in the form of an S, 

 which enables a man to cut with remarkable expedition ) I 

 found the weight to be forty-seven pounds, and the weight 

 of the same quantity of the improved Beet root, managed 

 in like manner, I found to be fifty-five pounds. This 



