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eight inches deep, with one yoke of oxen, which occupied one 

 day and a half; after which it was harrowed, and fitted for re- 

 ceiving the seed, which occupied one day. The remainder of 

 the time was four days sowing, two days weeding, two days 

 hoeing, and eleven and a half days digging, topping, weighing 

 and housing the crop ; in all twenty two days labour. 



The quantity of manure was one and a half cord, and the 

 quantity of seed two and a half pounds. 



The crop, which was weighed, amounted to 29 tons, hund. 

 1 quarter &. 25 lbs.— or 580 hundred, 1 quarter &i 25 lbs. 



All which is respectfully communicated. 



JOHN DWINELL: 



Salem^ JSTovember 11, 1822. 



HENRY LITTLE'S STATEMEKT—ON TURJVIPS. 



Newbury^ Nov, 5, 1822; 

 To the Committee on Green Crops. 

 Gentlemen,^ 



The following is a statement of the cultivation and produc- 

 tion of a lot of English Turnips, raised by the subscriber, in 

 Newbury. The soil is a clay loam, and had been down to grass 

 six or seven years ; in 1821 cut about one ton of hay to the acre ; 

 the last of June, 1822, it was mowed, and cut about half a ton 

 of hay ; the ground was then ploughed, and ten cords of compost 

 manure (the principal part of the compost was marsh sod,) 

 spread on and harrowed in, then it was ploughed in shallow 

 ridges, three feet apart, and the seed sowed, with a machine, on 

 the ridges, then a roller was made to pass over the same, and 

 the sowing was finished. It took one pound of seed to the acre ; 

 they were thinned to the distance of one foot apart in the row ; 

 they were twice ploughed and hoed, and harvested the last of 

 October, and the crop was six hundred and eighty seven and a 

 half bushels. 



The expense of cultivating one acre of turnips on the above 

 mode, calculating labour at four shillings per day. 



