54 ROOT CROPS. 



ROOT CROPS. 



Your Committee chosen on Root Crops and Cabbages have attended 

 to their duty and submit the following report : 



Whole number of entries five — one on Potatoes, by Cyrus Kilburn 

 of Lunenburg ; one on Carrots, by Ebenezer Bird of Leominster ; one 

 on Carrots by Lawrin Pratt of Fitchburg; one on Onions, and one on 

 Mangel Wurzels, by Mr. Pratt. 



POTATOES. 



Cyrus Kilburn's Potatoes, on 1 square rod of ground, 86 lbs., 



equal to 3440 lbs. to ^ acre. We award to him 1st prem., $8 00 



ONIONS. 



Lawrin Pratt's Onions, on 1 square rod, 24S lbs., or 4960 lbs. to 

 I" acre. We award to him the 1st prem., Harris on Insects. 



MANGEL WURZELS. 



Lawrin Pratt's Mangel Wurzels, on 1 square rod, 211 J lbs., 



or 4230 lbs. to g- acre. We award to him 1st prem., 2 00 



CARROTS. 



Ebenezer Bird's Carrots, on one square rod, 326 lbs., or 6520 



lbs. to J acre. We award to him 1st prem., 4 00 



Lawrin Pratt's Carrots, on I square rod, 174 lbs., or 3480 

 lbs. to i acre, did not come up to the Society's standard 

 weight. 



Respectfully submitted, 



EBENEZER BIRD, for the Committee. 



Statement of Cyrus Kilburn. 



POTATOES. 



The crop of 1869, where my potatoes grew this year, was grass, for 

 which no manure was used. In 1870 it was beans, to which there was 

 applied 8 loads of manure per 'acre. The soil is reclaimed muck 

 swamp. It never was plowed before 1870, and then was plowed 8 

 inches deep at a cost of $4 per acre. For the potato crop twelve loads 

 of manurc'^were put in the hill ; value upon the field, $15. Planted, 

 May 20th, in hills, 12 bushels per acre of Early Rose potatoes. Cost 

 of seed and planting, $8 for the ^ acre. The crop had no cultivation 

 except cropping the weeds twice with common hoe ; cost, $2. They 

 were dug, Oct. 1st, with prong hoe, at a cost of $3. 



