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been successfully cultivated, more especially in Hingham and its 

 neighborhood. 



CORN AND ONIONS. 



We have few instances of success in particular crops worthy 

 of notice. William L. Field, of North Bridgewater, has raised 

 this year, on eighty-six rods, sixty bushels of shelled corn, 

 ploughing in about four cords of cow manure with a cord and a 

 half of compost in the hills. The hills were three and a half by 

 three feet, four grains in a hill, planted June 10th, and hoed 

 twice. The seed was a mixed variety of swarthy white, a 

 yellow and a flesh-colored corn, and premium crops of more 

 than one hundred bushels for an acre, all weighed and shelled 

 on the first of January, having been harvested under the imme- 

 diate inspection of officers of the agricultural society. We hear 

 of many successful onion crops in the centre and northerly sec- 

 tions of the county, which are remunerative, notwithstanding 

 the maggot. One man in Bridgewater, last year, raised about 

 eight hundred bushels , but the price of onions has been 

 unaccountably low this fall. 



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TURNIPS. 



We are satisfied that the winter turnips raised in this county, 

 are smoother and sweeter than those of any other county in the 

 State, and are in more demand in the Boston market. No crop 

 brings so much with so little cost, and when they can be sold 

 for sixty to eighty cents per bushel in the Boston market, as has 

 been the case for two years, shrewd farmers will avail them- 

 selves of the opportunity to put some of their dry pasture lands 

 in better condition, by tui-ning them up for turnips. The 

 culture of turnips has considerably increased in some of the 

 seaboard towns. The use of bone flour for this purpose is most 

 beneficial, both for the turnips and the pasture, and the bone 

 manure, we believe, is more sure, valuable, and cheap than any 

 artificial manure in the market. 



The " Sweet German," the " Yellow Swede " or " Skirving's 

 Yellow," and the " Hanover" turnips, are the favorite varieties. 

 Tlie latter is known elsewhere as the "French" turnip. The 

 name of " Hanover " is hardly known in Boston, but for some 

 unaccountable reason, is so common in this county that many 



