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the crown being very large and the point thick. It is more 

 easily harvested, and does not lose in weight like the long or- 

 ange; the long tap of which is apt to wilt after being kept three 

 or four months in the cellar. I sow carrots as soon as the 

 ground becomes warm in the spring. I raise them for my 

 horses ; having found them to be an expensive root, and of 

 small benefit to my milch cows or store cattle. My crop this 

 year was six hundred bushels on ninety rods of land. 



Kuta bagas require lighter land and less manure than either 

 of the before mentioned roots. The best crops I have ever 

 had, were raised on new gravelly soil, ploughed about six 

 inches, enriched with about four cords of maniu-e harrowed in 

 after ploughing. Roll the land lightly, and sow the seed with 

 machine. In this way a solid smooth root may be raised. On 

 old land ruta bagas make long necks and rough bodies. They 

 are the cheapest root raised, and the most valuable for store 

 and fatting cattle. The seed I use is " Skirving's King of the 

 Sweeds," imported by the Massachusetts Society. In order to 

 avoid the ravages of insects, and to prevent the root from be- 

 ing overripe in the autumn, sow ruta bagas about the 20th of 

 June. 



POTATOES. 



The potatoes raised [on the farm, were all planted on new 

 land — a small portion on the cleared field referred to, and the 

 remainder on pasture-land cleared for the purpose. The latter 

 had no manure, except a handful of plaster in each hill. The 

 seed was Jackson Whites, and an excellent potato brought from 

 Maine by my foreman. Those raised in the pasture-land were 

 smooth, of uniform size, very mealy, equal to the Chenango in 

 its best days. The yield was a bushel to twenty-two hills. 



The cabbages raised were the late Savoy and Drumhead, 

 planted on new land, manured with barn-yard manure in the 

 hill. 



The land occupied by the crops referred to was as follows : — 

 Barley — five and one-half acres. 



