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west, 2 rods and 2 links to a stake; thence south, 77 J^ east, 7 



rods and 5 links to a stake; thence north 17 J^ east, 11 rods and 



10 links to a stake; thence north, 77 J^ west, 15 rods and 16 



links to the place of beginning, containing as aforesaid one acre, 



lying in a southwesterly direction from the dwelling house on the 



farm owned and occupied by James Brodie, in Ellisburgh. 



DAVID WALKER, Surveyor. 

 Sworn to this 2d day of ? 

 Jan., 1857, before me, ) 



Nelson Green, Justice of the Peace. 



Maple Grove, Ellisburgh^ Jefferson Co.^ Jan.^ 1857. 

 B. P. Johnson, Esq., Sec. JV. Y. State Agricultural Society: 



Sir : — On the 25th inst. I forwarded to your address a sample 

 of a crop of carrots raised by me last season, and respectfully 

 request you to enter my name on the list of competitors for a 

 premium on the same. In compliance with the directions on 

 your premium list, I submit the following statement, as the his- 

 tory of the crop : 



The soil is a sandy loam, and when the farm was purchased 

 by my father, in 1852, the ground from which these carrots were 

 taken was a worthless swale of about 3 acres, through \\\\\c\\ 

 cattle could not pass for miring, it being overflowed spring and 

 fall. In the summer of 1852, it was drained with stone, at a 

 cost of §97, or $32.33 per acre. In the sj^ring of 1853 it was 

 plowed and planted to corn, which yielded 80 bushels per acre. 

 In the spring of 1854 we put on 20 horse cart loads of manure 

 per acre, and sowed it to carrots. In the spring of 1855 we 

 sowed it again to carrots, without any manure, and on one meas- 

 ured acre the yield was 1,700 bushels. In the spring of 1856, 

 we had one acre surveyed, put on 30 horse cart loads of mixed 

 horse and cow dung and 5 barrels of bone dust, spread and 

 plowed in. We drilled in the seed with a Scotch machine that 

 rolls and sows at the same time, using half a pound of large 

 orange, and one and a half pounds of white, ]tlacing tlie rows 

 19 inches aj»art. On the 3d of July we i>assed through with a 

 cultivat()r, and <»n the 12th of July gave it the first weiiliug; 

 July 16th, put in the cuitivatur again, and on the iStli and 19tli 

 of August gave it the second weeding. Tlie yield from the meas- 

 ured acre was 1,610 bushels of carrots, weighing 60 pounds to 



