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that are best adapted to his soil. The turnips prefer a 

 dry, sandy soil ; the beet, a clay loam. 



As to the best means of cultivating these crops, the 

 committee summarily remark that the product and 

 profit will materially depend upon the following con- 

 tingencies, viz. that the soil be dry, that it be rich, 

 that it be deeply worked, that it be well pulverized, 

 and that the after-culture be well managed. The im- 

 plements necessary to cultivate them advantageously, in 

 addition to the plough and harrow, are the drillbarrow 

 and cultivator. The season for sowing the beet is from 

 the 10th to the 20ih May ; of sowing the Swedish tur- 

 nip, from the 10th to the 25th June. The drill or row 

 culture is decidedly the best. A detail of the whole 

 process of culture would occupy too much space for 

 this report, and is unnecessary, as these processes are 

 already understood by many, and have been minutely 

 described in the agricultural periodicals of the day. 

 The committee will merely recommend, in conclusion, 

 that the roots be always cut previously to being fed to 

 cattle, for which machines may be procured, at a mod- 

 erate charge, which will cut a bushel in from one to 

 three minutes. If cut, the roots are eaten entirely ; if 

 not cut, a portion is apt to be rejected and wasted. 



The chairman has received a communication from 

 Col. Meacham, stating his mode of cultivating the car- 

 rot, the product and manner of using the crop. He 

 cultivates them in drills, from twenty to twenty-four 

 inches apart ; he gets one thousand bushels an acre, at 

 an expense of $25 to $30 : he kept six work horses 

 on them from November, 1836, to June, 1837, with- 

 out grain, and they remained in good plight, and per- 

 formed as well as he ever had horses perform, and he 

 thinks they are worth double as much for stock as ruta 

 baga. 



Upon the subject of the carrot culture, which is 

 perhaps less understood among us than that of the 

 beet and turnip, the committee will add that this root 



