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strewed over the land, and no other labor was bestowed upon 

 them until harvesting the crop. 



The product was one hundred and sixty bushels of fine long 

 turnips, which I have sold at twenty-five cents per bushel, 

 amounting to - - - - |40 00 



Expenses for 



Manure and ploughing, - 



Hoeing and ashes, _ _ . 



Harvesting and rent, - - ' - 



Net gain, - - - $31 69 



Samuel Warner^s Statement. 

 My crop of turnips I raised on five or six acres of land, by 

 scattering the seed thinly among the growing corn ; immedi- 

 ately after hoeing the last time, I harvested from my corn-field 

 four hundred and fifty bushels of nice turnips. 



Value of crop, at fifteen cents per bushel, $67 50 



Expenses for 



Seed, ashes, and sowing, - - $5 00 



Harvesting, - - - - 13 50 



18 50 



Net gain, . _ . |49 00 



I consider what I left on the ground, to well pay for the use 

 of the same. 



Josiah Hooker^s Statem,ent. 

 My turnip crop was raised on the same lot of land with the 

 rye, and was sowed in the last days of July, immediately after 

 the rye was gathered. The seed was the long English turnip. 

 The stubble was turned in with the plough, and the ground 

 bushed down and the seed sowed in drills eighteen inches apart. 

 No manure was applied — the yield was five hundred bushels. 

 I consider this crop the most profitable that is raised on my 

 farm. 



Value of crop, - . _ . $83 33 



