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the spring I ploughed again, with a single horse, about four 

 inches deep. The rows were fourteen inches apart. I used 

 half a pound of seed. Considering the season, my crop is 

 very good. 



I have raised a variety of turnips this season, called Golden 

 Ball, which I think superior to any I have before seen. The 

 seed was received from the Patent Office. 



South Danvers, Nov. 16, 1857. 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



Statements of John Brooks^ Jr. 



Potatoes. — The half acre on which I raised my potatoes is 

 wet, with clay subsoil. The crops in 1855 and 1856 were grass, 

 without manure. The ground was ploughed in the fall of 1856 

 six inches deep, and crossed in the spring eight inches deep. 

 Two and one-fifth cords of barnyard manure were spread before 

 the first ploughing. The land was furrowed, and 450 lbs. of 

 plaster put in the hill. It was planted on the 9th and 10th of 

 June, in hills three feet by two and a half, and from three to 

 five potatoes in a hill. The variety was the Davis seedling, of 

 which six and one-quarter bushels were used. A plough was 

 run between the rows once, and the crop dug October 6th and 

 7th. 



Cost of preparing the land and planting, . $5 25 



seed, 3 12 



manure, . . . . . . 10 95 



cultivation and harvesting, . . 3 37 



Product, 140 bushels of potatoes. 



English Turnips. — The eighth of an acre upon which I raised 

 my English turnips, is a wet, stiff soil, with clay subsoil. In 

 1855 the crop was corn, with two loads of compost, (one-third 

 meadow muck and two-thirds cow manure,) and 12 lbs. of 

 guano. In 1856, the crop was English turnips, with the same 

 manure, substituting super-phosphate of lime for the guano. 

 In 1857, it was manured the same as in 1856, and the compost 



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