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ROOT CROPS. 



Committee. — Cyrus Thurston, Joseph Smith, N. F. Ackley, Elisha 

 Garfield, P. S. Snow, FitcKburg. 



The Committee on Root Crops, have attended to the duty- 

 assigned them, and hereby submit the following Report : 



Your Committee were somewhat relieved from an embar- 

 rassment which' sometimes occurs, where there are a large 

 number of applicants, whose cases require a very close ex- 

 amination in order to determine to whom the awards right- 

 fully belong, — there being in this case only three entries for 

 our consideration. To wit: two lots containing one-eighth 

 of an acre each, by Isaac B. Woodward ; and one lot con- 

 taining half an acre and four rods, by Leonard Day, all for 

 carrots. 



Mr. Woodward's statement for lot No. 1, is as follows : 



The ground was manured with four loads of green ma- 

 nure, on the sixth day of May, and ploughed in: It was 

 ploughed deeper on the seventeenth, and the carrots were 

 sown on the eighteenth of May, in rows about fifteen inches 

 apart. They were hoed three times during the summer, 

 and were dug about the first of November. The amount 

 grown on an average square rod was 357 5-8 lbs. making 

 7152 1-2 lbs. or 143 1-20 bushels to the eighth, or 1144 S-20 

 bushels to the acre. 



The same field has been sown with carrots for three years, 

 and has been manured nearly the same every year. 



The cost of cultivation is as follows : 



Cost of manure, $4 00 



Cost of ploughing twice, 1 00 



Cost of raking and sewing, 33 



Cost of hoeing three times, ' 3 00 



Cost of harvesting, 3 00 



Total - $11 33 



