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cubic feet to a load, of good compost manure, principally from 

 the horse stable. Divided the half acre into two quarters, and 

 planted one-quarter to beets on the 24th of May, and one-quar- 

 ter to carrots, on the 28th. One-half was mangel wurtzel, and 

 the other. White French sugar beets, and long red blood beets. 

 Hoed and weeded them on the 18th and 19th of June, and 

 again in July, and thinned them out. The result, by the 

 measurement of the supervisor, Horace Callamore, Esq., was, 

 of the beets, on the quarter of an acre, a little over 257 bushels 

 of 56 pounds to the bushel, being over 1,028 bushels to the acre. 



Seth Bprague's Statement. 



The quarter of an acre of land, entered by me for premium 

 for carrots, is a sandy loam, was in turnips last year, the crop 

 of which was very small ; having given it at that time an extra 

 quantity of manure and dressed it with ashes and bone dust. 

 I put on, this spring, but few loads of compost manure of mid- 

 dling strength, ploughing and subsoiling it eighteen inches 

 deep, the last week in April. The first week in May harrowed 

 and hand-raked the ground smooth, planted the orange variety 

 with a seed-sower in rows, eighteen inches apart, thinning them 

 to six inches apart in the rows. There were many small vacant 

 spots in two-thirds of the field, sowed with seed purchased in 

 Boston; the other part sowed with seed raised myself, came up 

 very thick and even and had a better growth than the others. 

 They were hoed four times, and harvested the second week in 

 November, previous to which the supervisor measured one rod, 

 gathered and weighed them, and made less than two hundred 

 bushels. The sjiot was selected by myself, which I considered, 

 at the time, would give less than an average, but not expecting 

 to obtain the first premium, I felt indilTerent as to the quantity 

 reported. My men finished harvesting them a few days since, 

 and they inform me that they had a little over three hundred 

 bushels, that they were very particular in weight and measure? 

 and cannot be mistaken. The size and length of the carrots 

 give evidence to the correctness of this report. This I believe 

 is a larger yield than has been reported at any previous time. 

 When this is exceeded, I will try again. I think I can raise 

 four hundred bushels to the quarter of an acre. 



