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JK]nglisli hay, and Avas now nearly fit for fodder, and would be fit 

 for seed in probably a week more. Mr. P. had sown three quarts 

 of seed upon aboat forty rods, and the crop was luxuriant. 



A field of white beans, nearly ripe, was shown us, where one 

 crop had been previously grown this year, and sold at market, 

 namely, rare -ripe onions. Mr. P.'s method of raising the rare- 

 ripe onion was interesting, because new to some gentlemen of the 

 committee ; but as it is the common method, and well known to 

 tanners generally, it need not be here particularly described ; but 

 surelj'', it must be an obje<jt te procure the white beans for seed used 

 by Mr. Putnam, whether to follow or precede another crop, as both 

 the crops upon his land have grown and ripened in less time than, 

 the pea-bean would have required alone, although the latter may 

 be preferred by some for table use. 



The field containing the above mentioned crops ©f millet and 

 beans, also has, near the middle of it, an object of curiosity in the 

 well of water dug and used by Gen. Putnam, before mentioned. 

 It is apparently rather in the way of farming operations, but its 

 historical interest preserves it, audit is to be hoped it always will. 



Mr. P. manures his potatoes in the hill ; the Chenangoes and 

 Kidneys, at the time of our visit, showed some signs of disease, 

 while the hardy black potato was resisting it bravely, as usual. 

 The rot, however, has this year been arrested by some agent as 

 mysterious in its operation as was that Avhich produced the rot it- 

 self ; and that invaluable esculent is abundant, and of unusually 

 large size, although almost everywhere else, if not here, the seed 

 planted has this year been of small size ; a fact of disagreeable 

 import to most speculating writers upon this subject. (See N. E. 

 Farmer, monthly, page 419, for this year, and numerou3 other 

 writings.) 



Mr. Putnam manures his carrot land with muscle bed mud, at 

 the rate of six cords to the acre. For -onions he uses both ashes 

 and barn-yard manure. Mr. P. does not raise all his corn in one 

 field, but in different lots, and on soils somewhat different. One 

 object gained by this arrangement is that he can try different va- 

 rieties, as he avers, some three or four, without intermixture ; also 

 the effect of different manures may in this way be contrasted. A 

 jaece of one-half an acre was showa, manured with one-fourth night 



