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heaps, were then thrown, after three days' drying, into 

 the cart, hauled to the barn and tipped up, and were 

 again thumped together as they were put into the bas- 

 kets, and all this in dry weather — forty baskets, thus 

 cleaned were weighed, and the average net weight was 

 66j^ lbs. Two of these baskets after having been 

 weighed were taken, and the roots were all well brush- 

 ed with a good shoe brush, and when put to the steel- 

 yards again, each weighed on the same notch as before. 

 The whole number of baskets on the piece, and all I 

 believe were as well filled as the forty that were weigh- 

 ed — the whole number was 322^. This, multiplied by 

 G6\^, gives 21,373y| lbs. or 381 bushels and three 

 pecks, allowing 56 lbs. to the bushel; this is a very 

 small fraction over 370 bushels upon an half acre. 



These roots were unusually sound and fair. I was 

 personally present at the measuring and weighing of this 

 crop, and am fully satisfied that there has been no error 

 that tends to show a larger yield than v/as actually ob- 

 tained. The barn-cellar compost gave 15 baskets of 

 roots per load — the other compost 17^ baskets. 



ALLEN PUTNAM. 



Hamilton, Nov. 9, 1842. 



EXPERIMENTS ON MANURES. 



The Committee on Experiments on Manures, Report: 

 The subject of Manures, — the question how can farm- 

 ers most cheaply and most effectually fertilize their lands, 

 — is of the highest importance, not only to Agricultur- 

 ists themselves, but also to the whole community. The 

 object for which premiums are offered by Agricultural 

 Societies, is valuable and practical knowledge. The 

 experimenter, to entitle himself to them, must, by the 

 results obtained, and by faithful and true statements 

 thereof, give some information that will prove profitable 

 to others. An experiment which proves some article 



