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KOOT CROPS. 



manure and muck, and a few pounds of bone and super- 

 phosphate of lime. For the present crop one-half cord 

 of compost of stable and hog manure and muck was 

 spread and plowed in ; plowing once, April 30, about nine 

 inches deep. It was crossed with a horse hoe June 9, 

 smoothed with a garden rake, and sowed with a seed 

 sower in . drills about twenty inches apart, with River's 

 stuble Sweedish turnip seed raised by myself j was culti- 

 vated once with a hand hoe and garden rake, and 

 harvested November 5. 



About 75 lbs. superphosphate of lime, Coe's manufac- 

 ture, was spread upon the drills after the seed came up. 



Cost of plowing and other preparation, - _ - $1,00 



Manure and superphosphate, - - - - 4,50 



Seed and sowing, - - - - " - ,25 



Cultivation, - - - - - - ,50 



Total, - - . - . $6,25 



The tops paid for harvesting. 



Produce 6200 lbs., equal to 103 i bushels, or 826 2-3 

 bushels per acre. 



The machine witli which the seed was sowed did not 

 distribute it evenly, and many places where no .seed 

 came up were filled by transplanting from others where 

 it was too thick. That transplanted did not do one- 

 third as well as the other. 



ALONZO P. GOODRIDGE'S STATEMENT. 



SUGAR BEETS. 



The eighth-acre on which my beets grew is a sandy 

 loam. The crop of 1858 was corn, that of 1859, sugar 

 beets, with three loads stable manure each year. For 



