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soon after sowing; cost of growing vegetable's from $25 to $75 

 per acre in addition to the manure ; crop of turnips and car- 

 rots fifteen, to tliirty tons per acre; beets rather less; value of 

 crops, $125 to $250 per acre. 



Samuel Wliitten of Saco, grew thirteen thousand five hund- 

 red pounds of ruta baga, sold for $90, on half acre of light 

 fine sand ol' sandy loam ; in grass last year ; plowed eight 

 inches deep and manured with two hundred and twenty-five 

 bushels leached ashes for which he paid 11^ cents per bushel, 

 $25.03; sowed June 14, in drills, twenty-two inches apart; four 

 ounces seed per acre; harvested October 25th to 30th. 

 Expense plowing, . . . $2 25 



Ashes, . . . . . 25 03 



Spreading same, . . . 2 00 



Harrowing, . . . . 1 00 



Seed 12c., sowing 50c., weeding $2, . 2 62 



Harvesting, . . • . 5 00 



$37 90 

 Deduct from value, . . . 90 00 



Profit, on the half acre, . $52 10 



Mr. Whitten also grew four hundred bushels orange carrots 

 per acre on same light, sandy soil, eight inches deep; plowed 

 ten inches deep, and subsoiled this year with three hundred 

 pounds guano applied, costing $9 ; sowed in drills fourteen inches 

 apart, June 6th ; seed soaked and rolled in plaster, three-fourths 

 of a pound per acre ; cut the weeds twice. 



Expense ; plowing, $3 00 



Guano, 9 00 



Harrowing and raking, 2 00 



Planting, $1 ; seed, 75, 1 75 



Weeding, 6 00 



Harvesting, 8 00 



Estimated value of 400 

 bushels of 55 pounds 

 each at 20 cents per 

 bushel, $80 00 



Deduct 29 75 



Profit, $50 25 



$29 75 



He also grew white beans (blue podded) on same soil, to 

 which was applied twelve one-horse loads compost valued at 

 $4; planted in hills fifteen inches apart, rows forty inches, June 



