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the busliel. (See certificate of David Walker, accompanying this 

 statement.) The yield of white carrots was much greater than 

 of the orange. No difference was perceived in the yield of those 

 parts where bone dust was or was not applied. 



COST OF CROP. 



30 horse cart loads of stable manure at 25 cts §7 50 



4 bushels bone dust at $1.75, 7 00 



Hauling manure, 3 men and 2 horses one day, 4 50 



Drilling with Scotch plow, two-thirds of a day, 1 38 



Plowing and harrowing one half day, __ 1 00 



Sowing seed 6s., sowing bone dust 4s., 1 25 



First cultivating, 1 hand and horse one-fourth day,. 50 



First weeding, 1 hand 6 1^ days, 6 33 



Second cultivating, 1 hand and horse one-fourth day, 50 



Second weeding, one hand two days, 2 00 



Pulling and loading, 1 man 5^ days,. _ 5 50 



Man and horse, hauling to cellar 1^ days, 2 25 



$39 71 

 Cost of seed, 2 lbs. at 6s 1 50 



Total cost, _ $41 21 



A-dd rent of land at, per acre, 8 00 



$49 21 

 Value of 1610 bushels at 20 ots. per bushel, 322 00 



Leaving as the nett profit of the crop, $272 79 



JOHN BRODIE. 



Jefferson County^ ss: 



Jolm Brodie, being duly sworn, says that he raised a crop of 

 carrots the past season, upon the land surveyed by David Walker, 

 and that the quantity of carrots was 1,610 bushels, measured in 

 a sealed half bushel, and that he was assisted in harvesting and 

 measuring said crop by William Bendlow and Hugh Brodie, and 

 that the statement annexed, subscribed by this deponent, as to 

 the manner of cultivation, expense, &c., is in all respects true, to 

 the best of his knowledge and belief, and that the sam])le of car- 

 rots exliibited is a fair average sample of the whole crop. 



JOHN BRODIE. 

 Sworn before me this 28th ) 



day of January, 1857, J 



D WIGHT CooLEy, Justice of the Peace. 



