44 ON AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 



HENRY BUSHBY'S STATEMENT. 

 To the Committee on Root Culture. 



Gentlemen, — The field that I have cultivated with Carrots the 

 present year contains ninety-five rods. 



It has been under cultivation for vegetables for a dozen years 

 past. It is a sandy loam, naturally rather a shallow soil. It has 

 been manured wth four to five cords to the acre. The last year I 

 raised on it sugar beets and sage. I planted carrots this year to 

 bring it into a condition for the raising of onions. I put about three 

 cords of green manure from our barn yard to the acre. Ploughed 

 it in about six inches, bush harrowed it, avoiding the use of the iron 

 harrow, so as not to bring the manure to the surface. Sowed the 

 seed about the 10th of May, by a drill machine, in rows, fourteen 

 inches apart, the lot was sixteen rods long, and contained 78 rows. 

 I sowed half a pound of seed of the short horn carrot. Wed them 

 twice. Pulled the carrots, without any use of shovel or spade. I 

 had six hundred and forty bushels, weighing sixty pounds to a bush- 

 el, making nineteen and one-fifth tons, valued at ^7 per ton, makmg 

 the gross produce ^138. 



HENHYBUSIIBY. 



Danvers, November 13th, 1847. 



ON AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENTS. 



The Committee on Improved Agricultural Implements Report : 

 That Messrs. Ruggles, Nourse and Mason, of Boston, exhibited 

 several highly finished and improved ploughs of theu" own manufac- 

 ture. Their ploughs have so often taken the premiums of our own 

 and other Agricultural Societies, and their merits are so generally 

 known, that it would be superfluous now to praise them. They also 

 exhibited a wnnowing machine, hay cutter, vegetable cutter, seed 

 sower, garden cultivator, and improved ox yokes, well deserving no- 

 tice. Among their other tools were very handsome specimens of 

 forks and hoes made by Panridge of Medfield, whose tools are 

 known to be the most substantial and durable articles of the kind in 

 the market. 



