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up last June, and manured with a very heavy dressing of kelp 

 and green barn manure, about ten cords per acre spread On the 

 grass and turned under the sod. The ground was then har- 

 rowed and cultivated well, so as to make a surface of fine soil 

 before planting. The seed was sown the 28th of June, with 

 the drill, in rows three feet apart, and the plants, left standing 

 in the rows one foot apart. The crop was gathered and 

 housed on the 9th of November. Yield, four hundred and sixty- 

 two bushels, weighing sixty pounds per bushel. 



4th. The ground on which the onions were raised was broken 

 up in the spring of 1851 and planted with cabbages; in 1852 

 planted with squashes; in 1853 planted with carrots. It was 

 manured liberally each year with barn manure and rotten kelp ; 

 about eight or ten cords per acre. This year I put on about 

 twelve cords per acre. Sowed the onions the twelfth of May. 

 Yield on half an acre, five hundred thirty-seven and a half 

 bushels, weighing fifty pounds per bushel. 



5th. The land on which the carrots were raised was also 

 broken up in the spring of 1851 ; planted then with ruta-baga 

 turnips ; in 1852 with squashes ; in 1853 with ruta-baga turnips ; 

 and manured each year about as the onion land spoken of above. 

 This year it was manured with rotten kelp and green barn ma- 

 nure, (by which I mean barn droppings,) from ten to twelve 

 cords per acre. Planted the 31st of May. Yield, thirty-four 

 thousand nine hundred and seventy-four pounds, or six hundred 

 and thirty-five bushels and forty-nine pounds. 



6th. The land on which the potatoes were raised was not all 

 in one field, a small part of the seed being planted in two rows 

 around the sides of another field. I am not therefore able to 

 state precisely the quantity of land ; but from the seed planted 

 (being but nine and a half bushels) it could not have exceeded 

 an acre — probably less. The yield was two hundred and sixty 

 bushels of the finest quality of potatoes I have ever raised. 

 The land was planted with potatoes in 1852; sowed in the 

 fall with winter rye, which I took off the following summer ; 

 ploughed the land in September, and turned in quite a crop of 

 green grass and weeds; ploughed it again last sp ring, after 

 spreading on eight or ten cords of good barn compost manure. 

 The potatoes were planted in May. 

 Mahulkiiead, November 13, 1854. 



