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We think the tops given to our cattle will fully pay for har- 

 vesting the crop. Yield, one hundred and sixteen and three- 

 fourths bushels. 



Statement of Nahum Snell. 



Carrots. — The quarter of an acre of land on which my car- 

 rots were raised, which were entered for premium, consists of 

 yellow loam, on which I drew eight loads of good compost ma- 

 nure. It was in corn in 1853. It was sown about the 20th of 

 May with orange carrot seed. It was ploughed twice with a 

 heavy sward plough and raked smooth ; then sown on a level 

 surface with a seed-sower/in rows fifteen inches one way, and 

 as thick the other as they could grow to advantage. Owing to 

 the dry weather, some parts did not come up well. The yield 

 was one hundred and thirteen and three-fourths bushels. 



Statement of Spencer Leonard, Jr. 



Turnips. — Having entered as a competitor for the premium 

 offered for the best crop of ruta-baga or French turnips on a 

 quarter of an acre, I will state that the ground was sown to bar- 

 ley in 1853, and produced a fair crop. In June of this year there 

 were spread upon the stubble two cords of good stable manure, 

 which were ploughed in. Twenty-five bushels of leached ashes 

 and sixty pounds of Peruvian guano were spread upon the fur- 

 rows and well harrowed. The seed was planted on the 21st 

 of June with a seed-sower, in rows thirty-four inches apart, oc- 

 cupying about one hour. In about four weeks they were thinned 

 out and hoed, at a cost of two dollars and seventy-five cents. 

 Eighteen days after the first hoeing they were hoed again, at a 

 cost of one dollar and seventy cents. 



Expenses : — 



Two cords of manure, and applying, . . . §10 00 



Twenty bushels of ashes and applying, 

 Sixty pounds of guano and applying, 



Ploughing, 



Harrowing and sowing seed, 



3 00 

 2 00 



50 

 75 



