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Of English turnips, 6oQ bushels, G87 bushels, G72 bushels, 

 751 bushels, 814 bushels. 



Of onions, 651 bushels. 



" We know of a lot of six acres from which thirty tons of 

 hay, accurately weighed, were gathered in one season ; and 

 another field of about forty acres, from which, according to 

 the statement of respectable and disinterested individuals, the 

 yearly crops have averaged more than 120 tons, or three tons 

 to the acre. "We can point to a small dairy establishment the 

 produce of which, when all circumstances are considered, is 

 probably not surpassed in the State, when some of our native 

 cows, with no extra feed whatever, have averaged a yield of 

 100 pounds each of butter in a season ; and another when, with 

 high feeding, five cows have produced 208 pounds in a season 

 to a cow." This statement was, I think, drawn up by Col. 

 Pickering. 



We shall not find it easy, gentlemen, to exceed such crops as 

 these. If we, as farmers, win for ourselves as honorable a record, 

 we shall do well. But we can remember with satisfaction that 

 in our day we have added to the business of general farming, 

 which produced the extraordinary crops above quoted, the 

 careful and profitable culture of the crops then but little 

 known. Since that day the great business of root crops has 

 been made by us a most important source of revenue. The 

 onion has been brought to a greater degree of perfection. The 

 cabbage crop has been made very profitable. All market gar- 

 dening has been largely developed. Fruits of every description, 

 for which in 1829 no premiums were offered by the society, have 

 become a most interesting and useful branch of agricultural 

 business ; and the pear, the apple and the grape have been 

 vastly improved by the intelligence and skill of our cultiva- 

 tors. The condition of our farm buildings has vastly improved. 

 Our farm-houses are constructed with more economy and taste ; 

 our barns are more convenient ; and a barn-cellar as a recepta- 

 cle for manure has become the rule instead of the exception. 

 Well-ordered estates, which were then rare, are now numerous. 

 In and around our large cities the prosperous merchants and 

 manufacturers have taken pride in beautifying their grounds 

 according to the best rules of landscape gardening ; and our 

 beautiful sea-coast is adorned by the hand of man, to a degree 



