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the premium for the best yellow corn you deemed proper to 

 award. As regards quality, perhaps the best I can say of it is, 

 that all I could spare was purchased by seedsmen at six shillings 

 per bushel of ears, the varieties taken indiscriminately. 



Cattle Roots. 



Last season I made the following trial by manuring ground 

 intended for mangold- wurtzel, sugar-beets, and several varieties 

 of carrots, a quantity of which I raised the previous year, for 

 fodder, and when feeding, collected the manure — both solid and 

 liquid — made from each species of root separately, which in 

 spring was applied to the respective plants with beneficial re- 

 sults. 



Ground for carrots especially, should be deeply worked and 

 thoroughly pulverized, and I have observed they thrive best in 

 damp situations. 



The turnip-rooted cabbage — above ground variety — exhibited 

 in connection with the beets and carrots, were grown on clay- 

 loam highly manured; in the absence of a liberal supply of 

 manure, their cultivation had better be omitted. They should 

 be kept free from weeds by frequent hoeing, leaving the root ex- 

 posed. 



For fodder, they are more valuable than turnips, and in the 

 early stage of their growth are also used for culinary purposes, 

 but as far as my observations extend^ are not extensively culti- 

 vated. 



Potatoes. 



Of the nine varieties, (chiefly from European seed) which I 

 this year grew, specimens of which were to be seen at your last 

 exhibition, were harvested in sound condition, excepting tlie 

 Mercers and Western-red, a portion of which were rotten, all 

 were planted at about the same time, on the same locality, and 



