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Roxbury, !^^r. Meserve raised from an acre, eighteen tons. 

 His land had been devoted to carrots for three years be- 

 fore, and liad never produced less than fifteen tons. Mr. 

 M. estimates the net profits at $170. Mr. S. Sprague, of 

 Duxbury, raised on a quarter of an acre at the rate of nine 

 hundred and eight bushels to tlie acre — or about twenty- 

 two tons. Expense of cultivation about twenty dollars. 

 J. Crowell, of Barnstable, raised ten thousand and seventy 

 three pounds of carrots — over two hundred bushels on a 

 quarter of an acre. Expense $22.33. 



M. P. "Wilder, of Dorchester, raised on one-fifth of an 

 acre, one hundred and eighty bushels. The carrots were 

 planted in rows four feet apart. Between each row of 

 carrots, was a row of pear trees. The trees, of which 

 there were thirty-six hundred, made a vigorous growth. 

 The carrots weighed nine thousand pounds. This is equal 

 to twenty-one tons to the acre. Had the carrots been 

 sown in rows two feet apart, without trees, the yield would 

 probably have been forty tons to the acre. 



J. II. Robinson, of Dorchester, raised twenty-six and 

 two-thirds tons of carrots, from one and one-lialf acre. 

 Reckoning the carrots worth $12 per ton, Mr. R. estimates 

 the profits of the field at $178. 



These specimens will :;uflice to show what can be done 

 on a given quantity of land. There is no risk in saying 

 that eighteen tons or seven hundred bushels may easily bo 

 raised from an acre of good land well manured. Much 

 more than this is done every year without extra effort. 

 The expense is variously estimated from eight to seventeen 

 cents a bushel, averaging probably not more than thirteen 

 cents. This is not far from half the value either for market 

 or for feeding. 



Experience alone can fully determine the value of carrots 

 as food for stock. On general principles we may assert 

 that a mixed diet is better for animals than one exclusively 

 composed of any single article. Our personal experience 



