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TUKNIP CKOF. 



5500 bunches at 5 cents per bunch, $275 00 



Expenses. 



Net profit, $146 00 



I find by my records that I raised and sold, in 1858, 10,000 

 bunches of turnips, at a fraction over five cents per bunch. 

 The quantity of land was about the same as this year, though 

 not all of it under efiective cultivation. I have sold, this 

 season, 6,936 bunches, only receiving for them $276 25. 



The quality of the turnips, this season, has been inferior to 

 those in former years ; but for their general quality, I insert, 

 by permission, the testimony of J. F. Reed & Co., who have 

 long dealt extensively in the vegetable market : — 



"Salem, Aug. 26, 1861. 

 This may certify that having been annually supplied with 

 turnips by H. A. Stiles, jErom June 15th to the present time, 

 we have regarded them as being fully equal, if not sujyerior, as 

 an early crop, to any brought into market, or grown in this 

 county." 



From all that has been stated above, it appears that the most 

 important requisite to the successful culture of the turnip, is 

 — 1st, suitable land ; 2d, good, fine manure, spread upon the 



