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Of Barley — 50 bushels ; 51 1-2 bushels ; 52 bushels 

 and 18 quarts. 



Of Potatoes— 518 1-2 bushels. 



Of Carrots— 849 bushels; 864 bushels; and 878 

 bushels at 56 pounds to the bushel ; and 900 bushels. 



Of Mangel Wurtzel— 924 bushels; and 1034 bushels. 



Of lluta Baga — 688 bushels. 



Of Beets— 783 bushels. 



Of English Turnips— 636 bushels ; 687 bushels ; 672 

 bushels ; 751 bushels ; 814 bushels. 



Of Onions — 651 bushels. 



" We know of a lot of six acres from which thirty 

 tons of hay, accurately weighed, were gathered in one 

 season; and another field of about forty acres, from 

 which, according to the statement of respectable and dis- 

 interested individuals, the yearly crops have averaged 

 more than one hundred and twenty tons, or three tons to 

 the acre. We can point to a small dairy establishment, 

 the produce of which, when all circumstances are con- 

 sidered, is probably not surpassed in the Slate, when 

 some of our native cows, with no extra feed whatever, 

 have averaged a yield of 100 pounds each of butter in 

 a season ; and another when with high feeding five cows 

 have produced 208 pounds in a season to a cow." This 

 statement was, I think, drawn up by Col. Pickering. 



We shall not find it easy, gentlemen, to exceed such 

 crops as these. If we, as farmers, win for ourselves as 

 honorable a record, we shall do well. But we can re- 

 member with satisfaction that in our day we have added 

 to the business of general farming which produced the 

 extraordinary crops above cjuoted, the careful and profit- 

 able culture of the crops then but little known. Since 

 that day, the great business of root crops has been made 



