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I hauled 11 cords of coarse manure on to the piece ; last of May 

 broke it up ; first of June sowed three bushels of oats to the acre ; 

 grew very stout, worth as much as three tons of hay ; fed without 

 threshing-. This spring-, 1859, I commenced for the crop under 

 consideration, 16th of April ; hauled 15 loads of good manure from 

 the stable cellar, and placed in three heaps, beside the ground, half 

 cord to the load, and as shoveled on, I sowed two bushels fine salt, 

 4 do. dry slacked lime, 6 do. ashes, and 4 do. plaster ; covered it 

 with leached ashes and let it lay till wanted for the hill ; 20th May, 

 commenced plowing crosswise of the furrow 10 inches, or below 

 the old sod or furrow and manure, with a long breaking up plow ; 

 then harrowed well ; then hauled ofi" the rocks that were plowed 

 up ; then hauled on 15 cords muck and barnyard manure, spread and 

 plowed in ; then harrowed and cultivated three times. 26th of 

 May, began to plant ; first furrowed 3| feet, from 8 to 9 inches 

 deep ; then a shovelful from the heaps which was nice and warm ; 

 covered smooth and patted down ; planted with Varney corn plan- 

 ter, 5 in a hill ; I think there were but two hills missed in the piece ; 

 planted hill of beans between every hill of corn ; stuck one pump- 

 kin seed point down, in the third hill of every third row, with a few 

 marrow fat squash seeds, and finished up 28th, at night, some tired. 

 Cultivated and hoed first, about 20th of June ; second, first July; 

 then weeded as occasion would admit. Cut up first of October and 

 shocked in small shocks. Cost, $87.10. Value of crop, $212.09." 



Mr. Stackpole's statement on carrots, is as follows : 



" My carrots grew on 46 and 5-6 rods of ground, and the crop 

 amounted to 194 bushels of orange carrots, which weighed 62 

 pounds to the bushel. The soil was of a clayey loam, with a few 

 small stones ; was plowed from '7 to 8 inches deep, and was planted 

 without applying any manure this year. Soil, stiff, subsoil of clay, 

 one foot below the surface. It has been planted with carrots the 

 two previous years, and well manured, both years. I sowed the 

 seed the first of June, with a machine, in drills about fifteen inches 

 apart, and harvested the first of November. Did not come up 

 well, and they were injured by the drouth. I hoed and weeded 

 them twice." 



Expense of cultivation, . . . $14 25 



' 194 bushels carrots at 2s. per bushel, . 64^61 



Net profit, . . . . $50 50 



Mr. E. B. Stackpole presented garden vegetables He says : 



" The soil on which they grew was light and gravelly, what is 

 termed here " horse back." The vegetables I present, are 3 vari- 

 eties of cabbage, 1 of cauliflower, three of turnips, 4 of beets, 3 of 

 onions, 1 of parsnip, 1 of carrot, 3 of corn, 4 of squash, 3 of beans, 

 2 of peppers, 1 of rhubarb, 1 of tomato, and 1 of cucumber, making 

 in all, 31 varieties, which were all grown in the open air, and were 

 planted and sowed the 24th and 25th days of May. The same land 

 has been used for a garden 12 years ; last year there was not any 



