
          769

9

Produce on Long Island - 400 to 600 Bus [Bushels]
p [per] Acre in poor light land, transplanted too
late.

In England Cobbet raised 33 tons or 1320 Bushels
p [per] Acre on many acres - (transplanted 17 acres)
equal to 7[illegible] p [per] turnip 10830 plants p [per] acre - Has raised
50 tons p [per] Acre - plants 12. [illegible] each.
Raised plant 10. [illegible] each from hoed end sown plants
A man will transplant from ½ to 1 Acre with a
boy to drop the plants with a sharp stick 12 to 15
inches long made from an old spade handle.

Raised more than 50,000 Bus. [Bushels] from 52 Acres in 1816
in England.
Best transplanted without rain at the time -

Experiments of Wm Coxe 1818

July 18.  Sowed Swedish Turnips on Head lands Sunbury
and in Garden - ground from rain proved very weedy
Aug. 16th to 20th Hoed ground, plants small in order to destroy
weeds.
28 29: continued hoeing in Garden.
Aug 24 Transplanted the plants on ground where early potatoes
were planted - well ploughed & clean. 4½ feet ridges
1 foot apart. planted in the Sun - after breakfast 
came a gentle shower in the afternoon (not half [illegible])

The above experiments did not succeed. I obtained only about 10
Bushels from the whole - owing to too late sowing and a singularly
dry Season. Many of the Turnips were large - 4 to 6 Inches diameter and
well flavored.  My white Turnips were more productive in proportion
to the ground occupied.

Dec.

Read  W Cobbetts Acct [Account] in Evening Post of Judge Mitchells (of Long Island)
crop of 202 Bus [Bushels] on 65 Rods = about 500 Bus [Bushels] p [per] Acre Sowed 8. & 19th July
part transplanted 8 Aug. transplanted nearly as large as sown ones.
Ground ploughed 6th June harrowed with 10 loads compost on soil not
cultivated for near 30 years, 4 feet ridges shallow ploughing - 
a M Bord [Mortar Board] in ridges 2½ feet & finely prepared ground raised
350 Bus [Bushels] p [per] acre - at Flushing.

carried to p 772
        