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rowed in, and two shovelfuls of old barn manure in each hill. 

 The next year it was planted with cabbages, manured with 

 about eight cords of kelp and barn manure to the acre, spread 

 on and ploughed in. This year I sowed it with carrots the 26th 

 day of May. I spread on about ten cords of kelp and ])arn 

 manure to the acre, and ploughed it in ; the crop yielded fifteen 

 tons and three hundred pounds ; the rows were seventeen inches 

 apart. 



Ruta-Bagas. — One-half acre of ruta-baga turnips. The 

 land on which these were raised, was mowed the 23d day of 

 last June, and yielded about two tons of hay to the acre. 

 After the hay was taken off, it was manured with about eight 

 cords of rotten kelp to the acre, spread on the grass and 

 ploughed in with the double Michigan plough ; then about three 

 cords of fine old compost manure to the acre, spread on and 

 harrowed in. The turnips were sowed the 15th day of July, in 

 rows three feet apart, and the plants were left, when thinned 

 out, standing from eight to ten inches apart in the row. The 

 crop was taken off to-day, yielding 370 bushels of turnips as 

 smooth as bottles ; and, considering the time they were sowed, 

 I think it is the best crop I ever raised. 



The land was measured, and a strict account of the crops 

 taken. 



Marblehead, Nov. 14, 1857. 



Statement of Daniel Buxton, Jr. 



Carrots. — I submit for consideration the result of my culture 

 of carrots, on a lot of land supposed to be half an acre, but 

 from actual measurement is a few rods less, the lot being 284 

 by 72 feet. The crop exceeded my expectations, being, when 

 gathered and cleaned, more than 16 tons. The variety grown 

 was what we call the short-horned carrots, 35 bushels weighing 

 a ton. I consider them as good or better than any other carrots 

 for use as feed for stock. The land on which they grew was 

 the same on which I have grown onions for several years ; it is 

 wet, heavy and rocky. I put two cords of stable manure on 

 the ground last fall and ploughed it in, running the plough as 

 deep as I could with two horses, say about seven inches. In 



