the cost of the crop : — 



Ploughing and preparing land, - - $ 4-00 



Seed, ----- lo.oo 



Manure 4 cords, - - - - 28.00 



Weeding 3 times, - - - - 24.00 



l\vo bbls. Brighton Fertilizer, - - 10.00 



Harvesting, .... 10.00 $ 86.00 

 By 330 bushels of nice well ripened onions at 75 cents per 



bushel. $ 247.50. 



TURNIPS. 



STATEMENT OF JAMES MANNING. 



To the Committee on Root Crops, 



Gentlemen : — The following statement shows the cost of cul- 

 tivating one half acre of ground for Ruta Baga Turnips : — 

 Ploughing" and Harrowing, - - $ 5-00 



Three cords Manure and Muck, - - 12.00 



Planting and Cultivating, - - - 3.00 



Seed, .... - .75 ^20.75 



The above named ground has been used for English grass 

 crops for the last eight years. There were three hundred bush- 

 els of Ruta Bagas raised on this half acre, which are worth forty- 

 five cents per bushel. Weight sixty pounds per bushel, or nine 

 tons in all. The ground was ploughed eight inches deep, and 

 planted on the twenty-fourth of last June. 



SQUASHES. 



STATEMENT OF J. J. H. GREGORY. 



My crop of Turbans were raised on our good strong Marble- 

 head soil, which seems to have a particular affinity for squashes 

 both in the quantity of the yield and the quality of the crop. 

 The ground was thoroughly ploughed and the manure applied at 



