40 ON ROOT OROPS. 



rye above described, and found it to contain one and a quarter 

 acres. I also saw the grain and consider it of superior quality. 



JOHN W. PROCTOR. 



ON ROOT CROPS. 



The Society offered 36 dollars, in the aggregate, for the "best 

 conducted experiment" in raising the following roots, viz. : Sugar 

 Beets, Carrots, Parsnips, Ruta Baga, Mangel Wurtzel and Onions. 

 No entries were made on any of the above roots, except onions. 



There were two entries for the premium on onions ; one by Aaron 

 C. Proctor, of Danvers, who raised 480 bushels to the acre, which 

 was not much above the ordinary yield. 



The other entry was by John Peaslee, also of Danvers. It ap- 

 pears by his certificate that he raised on one half acre 411 bushels, 

 being at the rate of 822 bushels per acre, which the Committee 

 considered a yield entirely unparallclled in the history of the onion 

 crop. 



The Committee recommend that the Society's premium of six 

 dollars be awarded to John Peaslee, for his successful cultivation of 

 onions. 



The Committee regret that there was no entry of claims on the 

 other roots for which premium were offered, as each of them is of 

 the greatest importance to every farmer for feeding hts stock. 



JOHN STONE, JR. Chairman. 



JOHN PEASLEE' S STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on Root Crojos : 



Gentlemen, — I offer for premium a crop of onions raised from 

 one half acre of land, measuring four hundred and eleven bushels. 

 Land worth two hundred dollars per acre ; yellow loam. Southern 

 descent. A crop of onions was taken from the land the year pre- 

 vious ; not so good, however, as those of the present year. The 

 manure used was well rotted stable manure, which cost four dollars 

 per cord. The land was ploughed to a depth sufficient to bury the 

 dressing. About the middle of April of the present year, the land 



