224 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Owing to the extreme dry -weather, our crop was unusually- 

 light. 



Sunderland, 1854. 



BRISTOL. 



Statement of Henry D. Deane. 



Ruta-baga. — I offer for premium a crop of ruta-baga turnips, 

 raised on forty-three and nine-tenths rods ; the product being 

 two hundred and fourteen bushels, weighing forty-eight pounds 

 per bushel ; the weight of the crop amounting to ten thousand 

 two hundred and seventy-two pounds. 



The soil is a gravelly loam. A crop of carrots was taken 

 from the land the preceding year; the manure applied was 

 twenty bushels of leached ashes. This year it had twelve 

 bushels of dry ashes spread on one-half of the land, and three 

 loads of compost manure on the other, after it had been 

 ploughed ; then it was thoroughly cultivated in. I then sowed 

 the seed, with a seed sower, eighteen inches between the rows. 

 The plants were thinned and hoed in July. The crop was 

 much injured by the drought. 



Yield, 214 bushels, worth 30 cents per bushel, . $64 20 

 "Expense of cultivation, . . . . . . 15 4 2 



Profit, • . . $48 78 



Mansfield, 1854. 



Statement of Richard A. Leonard. 



Turnips. — I submit the following statement in relation to 

 the manner in which I obtained ninety-eight bushels of English 

 flat turnips from one-quarter of an acre of land. The land was 

 sward, and I spread on it a cord and a half of stable manure, 

 and then ploughed it about eight inches deep, on the 20th of 

 June. I sowed it broadcast on the 20th of July, and hoed and 

 thinned in August. The turnips were pulled the 1st of No- 

 vember. 



