ON ROOT CHOPS. Ill 



HENRY POORS LETTER. 



Boston, Nov. 20th, 1851. 

 DocT. Nichols. 



Dear Sir — -I promised to collect information, and report to 

 you, in relation to the Winter Wheat Crop. 



I learn from six or eight farmers, at Andover and Methuen, 

 that they have secured IS, 22, 25, 2S, and 35 bushels to the 

 acre. These facts will justify a strong report from you, and. 

 as one of the Conuiiittee, I hope you will make it an object to 

 draw the farmer's attention to it, as the most valuable — most 

 important crop of the cereals. 



I am fully satisfied, that even the small farmer, has good 

 LAND enough to raise wheat, to bread his family, and to spare. 

 The least we can do, is, to give it our sanction, and hearty en- 

 couragement. EiiHOKs have crept into the public mind, in regard 

 to the EXHAUSTION OF THE SOIL of its pcculiar properties to 

 raise wheat. This notion is easily dispelled by applying ma- 

 nures or ashes, to produce the crop as we would do for any 

 other crop. Yours truly. HENRY POOR. 



Andover, Nov. 20th, 1851. 



ON ROOT CROPS 



The Committee on Root Crops, report the following en^ 

 tries for premium, the present year, viz : — 



1st. Lyman Mason, of Beverly, for his crop of cabbagesj 

 on two and one half acres of ground, the product of which 

 has been sold in the market for the sum of $1,134 37. Also, 

 his crop of onions on one and seven-eighths of an acre of 

 ground, yielding twelve hundred and fifty bushels, or six hun- 

 dred and fifty bushels to the acre, which have been sold in 

 the Boston market for the sum of $543 62. He also pre- 

 sented to the notice of the Committee, his crop of carrots, on 

 forty-two rods of ground, which has produced six and one 

 iialf tons. The Society having limited the quantity of land 



