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Head Cabbages ; one half acre of Ruta Baga Turnips ; one half 

 acre of Carrots ; and about one acre of Black Chenango Potatoes. 



Specimens of the first four of the above named crops, were 

 exhibited at the Fair at Lawrence, 



1st. The land on which the Squashes were planted, was broken 

 up last fall, manured in the spring with a liberal dressing of rotten 

 kelp, spread on and ploughed in bj cross ploughing the land. 

 The Squashes were planted the 25th of May, eight feet apart each 

 way, with two small shovels full of old barn manure in the hill ; the 

 bugs were not so numerous on my Squashes this year as usual, 

 although I was somewhat troubled with them. The method I adopt 

 to keep them off, is the use of air-slacked lime and ground plaster 

 sifted on the plants till they are large enough to be out of the way 

 of insects. I place five seeds in the hill and leave three plants at 

 the last hoeing. I commenced gathering for market the middle of 

 August, and finished the last of September. Yield, thirteen and 

 one half tons of good marketable Squashes. 



2d. The ground on which the Cabbages were raised has been 

 planted with onions the last six years, and has been well manured 

 with rotten kelp and compost manure each year. This year I gave 

 it a good dressing of rotten kelp, ploughed it in and manured in the 

 hill with a small shovel full of old barn manure ; planted the seed 

 in the hill the 25th day of April ; commenced cutting for market the 

 9th of August. Marketed four thousand and four hundred heads. 



3d. The land on which the Turnips were raised was broken up 

 last June, manured with a very heavy dressing of -kelp and green 

 barn manure ; about ten cords per acre, spread on the grass and 

 turned under the sod. The ground was then harrowed and culti- 

 vated well, so as to make a surface of fine soil before planting. 

 The seed was sowed the 28th of June with the drill, in rows three 

 feet apart, and the plants left standing in the rows one foot apart. 

 The crop was gathered and housed the 9th of November, inst. 

 Yield, four hundred and sixty-two bushels, weighing sixty pounds 

 per bushel. 



4th. The ground on which the Onions were raised was broken 

 up in the Spring of 1851, and planted with cabbage ; in 1852 

 planted with squashes ; in 1853 planted with carrots. It was 

 manured liberally each year with barn manure and rotten kelp ; 



