326 [Senate 



william wr1ght.k 



Awarded an extra premium. 



Soil, gravel and muck ; previous crop, corn ; plowed twice ; with a 

 furrow six inches deep, and spread on two loads of manure ; sowed at 

 the rate of two pounds of seed per acre, about the 10th of May ; 

 1198^ bushels were taken off this acre. 



Expense and profit of crop. 



Produce, 1198| bushels of carrots a 1 5^. per bushels,. . . . $149 01 



Expense, 2 plowings, $1 50 



2 loads manure plowed in, 1 00 



2 pounds seed, 2 50 



\ day harrowing and rolling, 75 



8 days planting, 4 00 



4 days hoeing, 2 00 



20 days harvesting, 10 00 



Interest on land at 7 per cent, 2 80 



$24 55 



Profit of crop, $125 26 



Vernon., Oneida co. 



EXTRACTS FROM OSWEGO COUNTY REPORT. 

 G. L. SHERWOOD. 



The ground on which I planted carrots this season has been cropped 

 two seasons ; the soil, a sandy loam with a subsoil of clay ; last season 

 it was in corn, manured with hog and stable manure at the rate of 50 

 loads to the acre ; no manure applied the present season ; planted the 

 first of May in drills eighteen inches apart ; seed, long orange and 

 field ; on the first of November we measured from the aforesaid piece 

 one-fourth of an acre, by actual measurement, and harvested from the 

 oresaid quarter three hundred and forty-eight bushels. 



Expense of Cultivation, 



Fitting the ground, $0 75 



Planting, two days, 1 00 



Weeding, six days at bOcts. per day, 300 



do five days at do., 2 50 



12 days work harvesting at do., 6 00 



$13 30 



South Richland, JVov. 8, 1845. 



