ROOT CROPS. 125 



PLYMOUTH. 



Statement of Spencer Leonard of Bridgewater. 



Turnips. — The ground which my turnips covered was forty 

 rods, and the preparation of the ground was the same as for 

 my potatoes, except that I spread upon the turnip ground 

 twenty-five bushels of leached ashes. The turnips were 

 planted June 24 with a machine, in rows thirty-four inches 

 apart. Owing to the dry weather, they were slow in coming 

 up, and in many places did not come up at all, and others 

 were transplanted to fill up the vacant places. After the roots 

 got hold, they grew vigorously, and the tops seemed to entirely 

 cover the ground. November 1, one rod was harvested which 

 weighed 273 pounds, or at the rate of 728 bushels to the 

 acre. 



Expenses. 



Ploughing, etc., $3 00 



Manure, 21 00 



Seed and planting, 50 



Cultivation, 8 00 



Harvesting, 5 50 



Total, . . ■ $33 00 



Statement of James Howard of West Bridgewater. 



Mangolds. — The plot on which my beets grew is a stiff 

 gravelly loam, with a slight mixture of clay. The crop of 

 1874 was onions, manured with five cords of stable manure 

 to the acre, with some salt, and manure from the poultry- 

 yard. The crop of 1875 was the same as, and the treatment 

 very similar to, that of 1874. Last April, twelve horse cart- 

 loads of stable manure were ploughed in six inches deep, and 

 eighty-five pounds of Bowker's fertilizer spread on top aucl 

 worked in. April 28, sowed with a machine three-quarters 

 of a pound of Long Red Mangold seed. Cultivated with a 

 Ross cultivator, and hoed twice. Harvested the latter part 

 of October. One rod, weighed by the supervisor, weighed 

 502| pounds, equal to 1,340 bushels per acre. This crop, in 



