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surface, and harrowed fine ; 3d, good seed, of the best 

 varieties of turnip ; 4th, attention and care to the crop while 

 growing. 



Adhering to these rules, — which are not only applicable to 

 the turnip, but to other vegetables, — our markets will be sup- 

 plied with the finest quality of turnips, which will be more 

 and more appreciated by the public, and the growers thereof 

 will be abundantly rewarded. 



Middleton, Sept. 9, 1861. 



STATEMENT OF SAMUEL HUTCHINSON. 



To the Committee on Root Crops: — 



I present for your inspection a field of Cabbage, about six- 

 teen square rods less than two acres. The land is of ordinary 

 quality. It yielded a crop of corn the last season. In the 

 spring it was ploughed six inches deep. It was fertilized by 

 the application of common barn manure and leached ashes — 

 using three hundred bushels of ashes on the lot. I look upon 

 them as particularly well adapted to the growth of cabbage. 

 It was furroM^ed in rows three and a half feet apart, and plant- 

 ed in hills two and a half feet apart in the rows ; making, if I 

 estimate right, four thousand five hundred hills to the acre. 

 At the second hoeing, the plants were thinned to two in a hill; 

 and at the next hoeing, only the best one was left. They have 

 been kept free of weeds entirely, and have grown luxuriantly 

 and with remarkable equality — almost every plant forming a 

 fair head, many of them a foot or more in diameter. Many of 

 the plants were of the Savoy, or curly variety ; generally the 

 field embraces the best varieties grown in this vicinity. There 

 is about them a beauty of groAvth that gladdens the eye. 

 There may be on some lands, that have been long cultivated 

 ^nd highly manured, a handsomer growth, but I have never 

 seen one. 



