198 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Cost of cabbage plants and seed corn, 

 Marking out, .... 

 Cultivating and hoeing twice, 

 Cutting up and housing corn, 

 Husking corn, .... 

 Marketing cabbages and green corn, 

 Interest on land, .... 

 Taxes, 



Value of crop : — 



Sixty and one-half bushels of corn, 

 Twelve barrels of corn sold green, 

 Corn fodder, .... 



2,476 cabbages, .... 



$115 79 



205 50 

 115 79 



Net profit on 1411 rods, . 



Dorchester, November 13, 1854. 



71 



ROOT CROPS. 



ESSEX. 



From an Address by R. S. Fay, Esq. 



I propose to call your attention to the growth of roots, as 

 an indispensable part of every good system of cultivation. This 

 is very much neglected by us, although much of our soil is ex- 

 tremely well calculated to produce them. A neighbor of the 

 late Daniel Webster, who was certainly one of the best farmers 

 New England has ever produced, once applied to him to know 

 how he should proceed to improve his farm, which, as lie said, 

 without doubt very truly, " was pretty much run out ; " that is 

 to say, it had been cropped without system and without manure 

 until nothing would grow upon it, while side by side were the 



