vol.. \X. %■<). .10. 



AND HORTICULTURAL REGISTER, 



237 



apjun^', cim-niig nm! spim!, 

 ItM.iiiiig livioc, iiid liocing twice, 

 tlHi^ up and (looking, 

 rvcstiiig and liuvkinj^. 



f'nlut of Crop, l(c. 

 If of (ho manure, 



InislieU com nt t^O ci». 

 i I J Ions loddir at $10, 



From which deduct expense of crop, 



2 ^!i 



7 on 

 2 CO 

 •>00 



t84 00 



$34 00 



84 0(1 

 35 00 



$l4:i 00 

 81 00 



possible. Also, during iho dry wi-nlhor of Au. chc» spnrt ; llien I put into llio furrowt .VHinnie. 

 L'.ist, the tops of Bovoral of the row. w»-ro cut off curl londs of horno, Blablc and hoj; manure, an.ount- 

 for fodder for the cowa. My own boliof i». u ! i")! to upunrdu <>l nino cnrd», from llm fnfii»uro of 

 would bo poaalblo to hovo produced on ihe Hiin.c j ihc carl ; t ih.Mi Htriick off the land Iho olhrr way 

 piocM of ground, if much care had been taken, KiOO "ilh a mu.lniip, ju«l two foot upnri, and planted ; 

 bu,|,o|s. letting (where there woru to lunny.) Ihro'' stalk* 



Mhink the crop which has been thus produced | 'land in a lull: I unod eleven ipiarta of ired ; ono 

 on n.y land has not been caused by the lrenchin(j, half yello>v, niul Iho oilier larjje while corn. I 

 but by the looaonc.-s ot ilio soil and llie lop dr.'sa- I'lonted il Ir.i.n llie 20lli to •J4lh ol Mny. I hoed 

 injfof rich manure, ol which I haxc spoken. The H'e same four timeu, plowing between llie row. 

 »sclulne.ss of a top dressing, more especially in a each lime. I hoed ihe first lime the lOtli or 1 1th 

 drv season, is undoubtedly great. of June, and Ih- Insl lime llio first of July. I cut 



Inclosed are the cerlilicatej, which I suppose to ">c slalks, before the *JOlh September, and cut up 

 be all the Society will re<|Uire. The whole crop the corn mid had the same husked nnd weighed 



Net profit, $.■">!) 00 



FRANCIS DODGK. 

 Ao;M Danvtrs, .Vow. 1S41. 



This is to certify thai I, James Flanders, ineas- 

 d the corn wilhin mentioned, and the number of 

 ihels as suiod, was token from one acre of land. 

 Iso weighed several baskets of the above corn. 

 J lound il to weigh 70 2-5 lbs. to the bushel. 



James Flahoers. 

 Land measured by .■Vnsel \V. Putnam. 



Sugar Bket Crop. 

 Fndtric Tudor's Slattmtnt. 

 Ta Benj. Guilrl, Esq. — Sir — In the spring of 

 40, I caused about an acre of land, of the pas- 

 •e lands of this place, to be fenced in and trencli- 



20 inches deep. The ground had never before 

 d an agricultural instniincnt of any kind in it. 



was a pasture, of indifferent soil, with many 



nes in and upon it. 



The trenching consisted in reversing the soil for 



inches in depth nilli the spade, and after put all 



stones (which were found) in the bottom ; 3 



;hp3 of muscle mud were put on them, followed 



the turf and best of the soil — then 2 inches of 

 ;k weed and kelps, fresh from the shores, or cut 

 iin the rocks ; then the less rich part of the soil 

 d more muscle mud: the top left with the poorest 

 d most gravelly soil. In all, there were about 

 inches, in perpendicular height, of manure, added 



the soil, which when pressed, might have been 

 bn 6 inches in perpendicular hciglit; so thai the 

 ad had been moved with the spade a deplh of a 

 tie exceeding two fceL 



I^n the spring of 1640 it was sown with sugar 



els. but did not do very well, tiie lop soil being 



very poor. In ihe spring of 1841, 1 had il 

 owed about inches deep; but the plow did not 

 ach any of the richer parts of the soil below, and 

 Jiibited little more than yellow loam and gravel. 



I caused 03 rods of this lot to be again sown 

 ith sugar beet seed this spring, and after ihebeels 

 id come up, had the land dressed on the surface, 

 lerely spreading it on,) with 1.1 cords of rich cow 

 ird manure. This caused the young plants to 

 greatly, and iho crop has been so large, that 

 have determined to cvlilbit It before the Slate 

 gricultural Society, and put in a claim for the 

 remium which they have offered, which I beg 

 ave now to do. 



I should observe that I had ne design of making 

 lis claim, until the growth of the beets promised 

 great return. There has been no particular care 

 f them given, and indeed several patches in the 

 3 rods were to be seen where the seed had failed, 

 nd which should have been tilled with plants, if 

 le object had been to try the utmost which was 



was sold by auction, nnd the weights given were 

 what the purchasers paid for, when they took Ihe 

 beets. I am your ob't serv't. 



FKEDERIC TUDOR. 



jValianI, ATov. Ut, 1841. 



pijdTK. — The largest beet of the field measured 

 'M inches in circumference, and weighed HI lbs., 

 but was hollow-hearted. 



The largest sound and perfect beet weighed 21 

 pounds. 



A fair bushel measured of these beets weighed 

 a fraction short of (iO lbs., which gives a fraction 

 over 1217 bushels lo the acre. Tl'.e weight of 50 

 lbs. to the bushel, which is the usual weight al- 

 lowed, gives 8 fraction over 1454 bushels to the ] ed, nnd weighed by uj. 

 acre. As the .Agricultural Society have prcscrib-l 

 ed 5Glbs.Ho the bushel, the number of busiiels per! 

 acre at this weight will amount to a small fraction 

 short of i:W0. P. TrpoR. 



from, the Killi of October lolhe 24tli of naid month ; 

 nnd there was 17.'J baskets, weighing in ir- than 

 40 lbs. to a basket — the whole made (i'.»15 lbs., 

 which is 02 4575 buj-hela. 



The cultivation cost — 



I'lowmg, 



Hauling manure, furrowing and planting, 



Hoeing, 



Culling stalks. 



Harvesting, 



$H 25 



The foregoing corn was raised on one acre and 

 four rods of land, and was planted, hoed, Inrvesl- 

 L.EONAKI) llll'L, 

 GIX)Raii 111I.L. 



Land measured by Josiah Whitniiin. 



Land measufed by Alonzo Lewis. 



Weight of crop on !)3 rods, 42,294 pounds — ns 



{O^JVote by the Editor in relation lo Mr Dodf^e's 



StateiiKut Mr Dodge oppears, by ihc coirfi'oitee'a 



report, to have obtained 105 bushels of corn per 



weighed and certified by Ezekiel Peabody, Isaac I ncre by vitnsnrtmcnt, and only 98 bushels by 

 C. Perkins, and \V. G. Perkins. , weight. This leaves room for the inference that 



his measurement was scanty. \Vc happen Xc 



R TE Crop. 

 John Miyes' Slalement. 



know that the crop was measured in October, for 

 ' thi! purpose of entry for premium with the Csse^i; 



To the TriistPes nf tlie Massachusetts Society for the i ^°- Agricultural Society ; and thai Ihc weight was 

 " -- ■'- - "■ *- '■ not ascertained until Inte in Ji'ovimber. We have 



no dmibl that large corn will shrink in weight dur- 

 ing the first month after it is housed, near ten per 



Promoiinn of Agrlcultu 



Ge.ntlkmen — renter with you for premium, a 

 crop of winter rye. The soil on wliich it <'rew is 

 a black loam upon a clay bottom. Potatoes were 



raised upon ihe land for three yenrs previous 



The produce in 1640 was two hundred bushels. 

 Eight cords of manure used, was plowed in. The 



In 18:?!), we found a crop, by actual trial, 

 lo shrink between the last of October and the last 

 of November, from 87 1-2 bushels to /'.» 1-2 bush- 

 els. Therefore, had- Mr D. Wfighed, when he 



last of September, 1640, 1 sowed one and an half , "'^"^'"'"^ '" Oc'ober, it is probable that ho would 

 bushel of rye. Reaped the grain July 30, 1841, i '"'^'^ ''^'"'y ""'ff''' "'•'' '''■'^'"^'' "'' "'°'''^- 

 and threshed within ten days after. The produce 



was 40 bushels and 22 qts., besides 8 qts. of small 

 grain. Yours, with respect, 



JOHN NOYES. 

 Xtwbun/, JVov. 10, 1841. 



Grain ineisured by John J. Adams. Land mea- i.., 

 sured by Tristram Little. 



■B of the Matsachuaclls Society fur the 

 Ajjnculluri' : 



Cork Crop. 

 Leonard Hill's Stalemrnl. 

 To the Trust 



Pri>moliun < 



Gentlkme.x — Tne following is a statement of 

 Ihe cultivation and produce nf a lot of Indian corn, 

 raised by Ihe subscriber in East Bridgwater. 



The land had been planted lo poluloes in 1840, 

 and yielded 250 bushels. I put in 10 loads of 

 good manure and had ihe potatoes hoed three times. 



Sheep Husbandry. — The Boston Cultivator says 

 that, according lo the best calculation.^ there ar* 

 34,000,000 sheep in the Union. 'J'his is an in- 

 crease of aboul 5,000,000 within the last three 

 years. These are worth, at a fair c ili-iilolion, 

 $70,000,000. About one fifth of nl' these are 

 found in the single stale of New ^■ork. These 

 sheep, at three sheep to the acre, would require 

 11,000,000 acres for their keeping, worth twelve 

 dollars per acre, making the amount of |!I32,COO,000 

 invested in lands. 



The aggregate amount invested in sheep hus- 

 bandry in the U. States is : 



In Sheep, . <l(i6,000,000 



In Lind, 132.000,000 



$200,000,(100 

 The annual crop of wool is cstiuiated 

 This present year, the land was plowed about the 1 1)0,000,000 lbs. and worth nearly $40,000,000. 



middle ol May, very deep, wiih a heavy plow; I 



furrowed the same very deep one way, 3 feet 8 in- Read, reflect, and you will gain in knowledge 



