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The manure used was three one horse loads of hog and horse ma- 

 nure, worth five shillings a load. It was carted on and plowed in 

 about the first of April. Harrowed and raked off and sowed about 

 the 10th of the same month. Sowed with a drill harrow, drills twelve 

 inches apart — were hoed with a hand hoe as soon as the rows could 

 bd distinguished, and as often after as they needed it. 



The whole cost of labor in plowing, sowing, hoeing and harvesting, 



at 75 cents per day, $7.88 



Seven ounces of seed, at Is., '87 J 



Three loads manure, at 5s., 1.87^ 



$10.63 



Amount harvested, 57 bushels, at 50 cents, $28 .50 



Deduct expenses, • • 10 . 63 



Profit of the crop, • $17.87 



R. R. BAILEY'S METHOD OF RAISING CARROTS. 



On the first of June I took sixteen bushels of soap boiler's ashes, 

 with twenty-five loads of dirt from meadow ditches, with which I 

 manured about a quarter of an acre of black shelly land. Knowing 

 it to be a bakey soil, and being aware that long or green manures are 

 obnoxious to tap roots, I adopted this plan to make the soil light. 

 After twice plowing, on the 12th of June I sowed the seed, in drills 

 one foot apart, and one inch deep. I gave them one flat hoeing, then 

 thinned them to five inches, then I hoed them very deep with a stock 



hoe. 



About the last of August I commenced digging for market. They 

 were all of them larger than any I exhibited at the Fair. The pro- 

 duce of the quarter of an acre was 300 bushels — being the largest crop 

 I ever knew raised in America. 



Yours, very respectiully, 



R. R. BAILEY. 



Communipawj JV. J., Oct. 26th, 1844. 



JOHN W. WOOD'S METHOD OF RAISING TURNEPS. 



On the 10th of August the ground (a piece of sod of about a quar- 

 ter of an acre,) was plowed up ; it was then slightly harrowed in 

 the same direction as it was plowed. I then sowed broadcast five 

 ounces of seed, and rolled it with a two-horse roll. After they were 

 well up they were hoed twice. The product was 90 bushels, pulled 

 up on the 6th of November. The circumference of many of them 



