ON ROOT CROPS. 89 



To Charles French, of Andover, for his potatoes, the 



premium of 6 00 



The statements were not received until Nov. 16th, at which 

 time all the crops were harvested, except the Carrot crop of 

 Mr. Waters, so that your committee did not have the pleasure 

 of viewing them in the field ; but as the statements are so par- 

 ticular and so well vouched, they had no misgivings about 

 making the awards. 



The statement of Mr. French, — concise, but to the point, — 

 your committee commend to the serious attention of all read- 

 ers, living in the neighborhood of worthless land. He has not 

 only received a fair income from his ground the first year, but 

 his land is now in fine order for any other crop he may wish to 

 put upon it. 



The committee have, perhaps, rather exceeded their author- 

 ity in awarding a gratuity to Mr. Hubbard, but they thought 

 his experiment a very satisfactory one, and such an one as 

 they did not consider advisable to let pass without "material 

 aid" from the society. 



For the Committee, J. KITTREDGE. 



ANDREW NICHOLS'S STATEMENT. 

 The land on which this experiment was made, is nearly 

 level, one corner being a little elevated, and sloping towards 

 the centre of the lot. The subsoil is sand or loose gravel, — 

 the soil a loamy mould, which, as analyzed by Dr. Dana in 

 1840, contains soluble geine 4.56 per cent, insoluble do. 3.50, 

 Sulphates 1.30, Phosphates .84, Granite sand 89.80. (See So- 

 ciety's Transactions, 1840.) On the larger portion of it, oni- 

 ons had been cultivated for one or more years. On a small 

 portion of it cabbages grew last year. About the middle of 

 April the ground was ploughed seven inches deep, and manur- 

 ed with a compost formed by mixing twelve cart-loads of barn 

 manure with fourteen of muck, of the same kind as that ana- 

 lyzed by Dr. Dana, (see Transactions, 1840,) aud thoroughly 

 harrowed, raked smooth, and one and three-fourths pounds of 

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