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Another acre was seeded with River's stubble Swede, on the 

 8th day of June, and cultivated and thinned the same as the 

 first, and yielded 590 bushels. On one-fourth of each of these 

 acres 1"2| pounds of bone meal, dissolved in 10 pounds of sulphuric 

 acid, were drilled in with the seed, and the yield of this one- 

 fourth acre of purple top was 230 bushels, and of the River's 

 stubble 150 bushels ; the crops on both these one-fourth acre 

 lots appearing somewhat more vigorous in the early part of the 

 season than on the parts which did not receive the bone meal 

 or super-phosphate of lime, and they came to maturity earlier, 

 but the purple top produced only 1| bushels more, and the 

 River's stubble only 2^ bushels more than the two quarters of 

 the acre on which the same quantity of bone meal was drilled 

 in undissolved. 



Two of these four acres were seeded with oats on the 28th 

 of April, and harvested July 28, and the stubble was ploughed 

 in on July 29, and sown with the purple top strap leaf turnips 

 on August 5, but the crop failed : the two acres yielding only 

 25 bushels. 



CARROTS. 



Two acres of carrots on the plain, were manured with 12 

 cords barn manure and 100 bushels leached ashes. One of 

 them received, also, 100 pounds of plaster, and the whole was 

 cultivated in, three pounds of seed being used to the acre. The 

 carrots were weeded on the 27th of May, cultivated two or 

 three times, and harvested on the 10th, 11th, and 12th of 

 November ; the acre which received the plaster yielding 590 

 bushels of 50 pounds each, equal to 14 tons ; the other acre 

 yielding 516 bushels or 12-^9q- tons, or 2,200 pounds less than 

 the acre which received the 100 poiinds of plaster. 



BEETS. 



Two acres on the plain were sown with beets, manured with 

 6 cords of barn manure and 50 bushels of leached ashes per 

 acre. On one acre, also, 100 pounds of plaster were spread, 

 and the whole cultivated in. Four pounds of the white sugar 

 beet seed were sown the 29th of May. They were cultivated 

 and weeded, the same as the other root crops, and harvested on 

 the 4th and 5th days of November. The acre which received 

 the plaster yielded 234 bushels, or five tons and 1,700 pounds. 

 The acre withou.t plaster produced 202 bushels, or five tons 100 

 pounds, 1,600 pounds less than the acre manured with the 

 additional 100 pounds of plaster. The beet seed proved to be 

 of poor quality. The ground was ploughed when rather 

 heavy, and remained heavy througli the season. From these, 

 and perhaps other causes, the crop maybe regarded as a failure. 



