174 MASSACHUSETTS AGq§[:!ULTURE. 



For tlie present crop one-half cord of compost of stable and hog 

 manure and muck was spread and ploughed in ; ploughing 

 once, April 30, about nine inches deep. It was crossed with a 

 horse hoe June 9, smoothed with a garden rake, and sowed 

 with a seed sower in drills about twenty inches apart, with 

 River's stubble Swedish turnip seed raised by myself; was culti- 

 vated once with a hand hoe and garden rake, and harvested 

 November 5th. 



About seventy-five pounds super-phosphate of lime, Coe's 

 manufacture, was spread upon the drills after the seed came up. 



Cost of ploughing and other preparation, . . . $1 00 



manure and super-phosphate, . . . 4 50 



seed and sowing, ...... 25 



cultivation, ....... 50 



Total, $6 25 



The tops paid for harvesting. 



Produce, G,200 pounds, equal to 103| bushels, or 826| 

 bushels per acre. 



The machine with which tlie seed was sown did not distribute 

 it evenly, and many places where no seed came up were filled 

 by transplanting from others where it was too thick. That 

 transplanted did not do one-third as well as the other. 



Statement of Alonzo P. Goodridge. 

 Sugar Beets, — The eighth-acre on which my beets grew is 

 a sandy loam. The crop of 1858 was gorn, that of 1859, sugar 

 beets, with three loads stable manure each year. For the 

 present crop, three loads of manure were spread and ploughed 

 in. It was ploughed twice in May, ten inches deep ; furrowed 

 and sowed in drills two feet apart the first week in June ; hoed 

 twice, and liarvested November 8th. 



Cost of ploughing, etc., ...... 



manure, ...... 



seed and sowing, ..... 



cultivation, ...... 



harvesting, ...... 



Total, 88 75 



Produce, 4,815 pounds of beets. 



