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Labor, planting, - - - - $2 00 



Weeding, thinning, and hoeing four times, 10 00 

 Transplanting, - - - _ 4 00 



Harvesting, - - - - 3 00 



Seed, - - - - - 1 00 



.f 20 00 



On the 18th of October, the supervisor weighed one rod, 570 

 pounds, which, at 56 pounds to the bushel, is 407^^^ bushels, 

 and 1628f| bushels to the acre. The white beets stood better, 

 or nearer, in the rows, than the wurtzels, and were about equal 

 in weight. 



The quarter of an acre entered by me, for premium on tur- 

 nips, was in corn last year. It is a dry, sandy soil, the subsoil 

 loose sand. It was ploughed the first of June, without manure; 

 spread 90 bushels of ashes, mixed with two barrels of crushed 

 bones; harrowed fine and smooth, after adding two loads of 

 compost manure. June 24th, planted in drills, with a seed- 

 sower, with white French turnip, twenty inches in the rows, 

 thinned to about twelve inches ; hoed anu cultivated three 

 times. 



Ploughing and harrowing, $1 50; planting, f 1 ; hoeing 

 three times, thinning, &.c., $6; harvesting, $2; total, ^10 50. 

 October 18th, the supervisor weighed one rod, 373 pounds ; 56 

 pounds to the bushel, is 196f| bushels. This is a small crop; 

 one thousand to sixteen hundred bushels should be raised to 

 the acre, and I think premium should not be given for less 

 than 250 bushels to the quarter of an acre. 



The quarter of an acre entered by me, for premium on car- 

 rots, is a sandy, somewhat gravelly soil — it was in corn last 

 year. It was ploughed the first of May, nine inches deep, turn- 

 ing under about four tons of kelp. Six loads of stable manure 

 was then ploughed under, six inches deep ; harrowed — spread 

 six cart-loads of compost, and harrowed three times. Planted 

 May 9th, with the orange carrot, in drills ; the rows eighteen 

 inches apart ; thinned out four to ten inches apart, — there were 

 some vacant places, but they came up well. 



