154 PLYMOUTH AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



I planted the turnips so as to include seven rows to the rod 

 oneway, and eighteen inches the other; put about a pint of 

 leached ashes in each hill, mixed the soil with the ashes, drop- 

 ped the seed by hand, and covered with the hoe. I bought the 

 seed of Thomas Covington, raised by him. On the 13th inst., 

 the supervisor came, and measured and weighed one rod ; it 

 weighed 293 lbs., making, after the rate of 837 8-56 bushels to 

 the acre. I have, this day, completed harvesting the turnips ; 

 they measured 435| bushels, on 81 1 rods of land, as near as I 

 could measure. 



MiDDLEBOROUGH, Oct. 28, 1848. 



Beets. 



Daniel Alden^s Statement. 



The land on which I planted beets was planted to corn, in 

 1847, and is a sandy loam. April 28, spread six loads of com- 

 post manure, and ploughed 8 inches deep. May 25, ploughed 

 and carted on 6 loads of muck and ashes, mixed together ; 26th, 

 furrowed 2\ feet apart, then spread the muck and ashes in the 

 furrow, and covered with the furrow ; then dropped the seed 

 12 inches apart, and covered them with a strip of iron. The 

 seed was bought of Mr. Prouty, of Boston, sugar and turnip 

 beet. June 28, hoed the first time ; July 18, hoed again ; Aug. 

 7, pulled out the weeds. 



Expense of seed, 37 cts., two days hoeing, ^1 50, $1 87 



One and a half days hoeing, $1 13, pulling weeds, 25 cts., 1 38 



Carting manure and ploughing, . . . 2 00 



Planting, $1 50, harvesting |2, . . . 3 50 



Total, . $8 75 



Making 687 bushels and 48 lbs. per acre, as stated by the su- 

 pervisor, or 172 bushels of beets on the quarter acre, — at 25 

 cts., $43. 



MiDDLEBOROUGH, Oct. 17, 1848. 



