35 



June 28, 20. Ploughing, harrowing, and sowing, J^ 6 67 



Sowed July 1. Seed and manure, - - - 20 50 



Thinning, hoeing, kc. - - 5 33 



Harvesting, - - - - 3 33 



$3b 83| 

 The quality of the crop. They were large, but in conse- 

 quence of the drought they are fit only for stock. 

 Yours respectfully, 



HENRY LITTLE. 



SILAS AjYD JOSEPH LITTLE'S STATEMENT— ON 

 TURMPS. 



JVewbury^ Kovember 14, 1822. 

 To John W. Proctor, Esq. Secretary of the Essex Agricultural 



Society. 

 Sir, 



We have this year cultivated an acre of common turnips on 

 our farm in Newbury, and as we hope to obtain the Society's 

 premium, we are bound to make a particular statement of the 

 mode of cultivation. 



A small part of this acre was sown with turnips the last year; 

 the other part has been grass ground five or six years. This 

 year, that part which was used for turnips we sowed with flax, 

 after putting on it about five loads of manure, and pulled the 

 flax as soon as the blowing had fallen ofl"; then ploughed it, to- 

 gether with the grass ground, so as to make an acre, and after 

 iiarrowing in part, carried on nineteen cartloads of compost ma- 

 nure, mostly sandy loam, to mix with our cUiy loam. The one 

 part we spread on half the ground, and then ridged it with a 

 small double-mouldboard plough, about two feet and nine inches 

 apart. The other part was furrowed with the plough, and the 

 manure put in the furrows at a like distance (the produce how_ 

 ever was about equal,) and ridged as above, which covered all 

 the manure. One pound and a half of seed was sown on the 

 acre, one row on a ridge, and after the turnips were out of the 



