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planted to carrots five years before this, and manured with about 



one hundred pounds of Mapes' superphosphate of lime each year, 



the two last of which a portion of it was drilled in with the seed, 



which I find a very effective and profitable way of using it. It has 



been plowed twelve inches deep, and the large stones removed. 



This year I applied about one cord of hog manure and about one 



hundred pounds of phosphate. I used after the rate of one pound 



of seed per acre. The crop was harvested the last of October. 



The produce was one hundred and nine bushels of carrots, (grown 



on five-sixteenths of an acre.) I have not weighed them. The 



tops were all saved and fed to the cattle, and I should judge, there 



were about six hundred pounds of them. 



Plowing and working ground, 



Seed, 



Sowing, 



Manure, 



Hoeing, 



Harvesting, . 



Interest and taxes. 



109 bushels carrots, 25., 

 One-half manure left in ground, 

 Tops, 



Net profit. 



South Paris, Nov. 1, 1857. 



Garden Vegetables. The garden vegetables I present for 

 premium, are: — eight varieties of cabbage, one of cauliflower, two 

 of carrots, three of beets, one of turnips, and one of kohl-rabi. 

 They were all grown in mj new vegetable garden, which is a yellow 

 loam, a little inclining to gravel, with a southern exposure. The 

 soil has been but imperfectly prepared for a garden. It has had 

 but one dressing of green stable manure, and that was applied the 

 present year. My reliance for the growth of these vegetables, has 

 been on Mapes' superphosphate of lime. 



