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eight cords to tlio acre. The carrots were sown the 20th of 

 May, ill rows seventeen inches apart. The land was measured 

 and thirteen tons of the carrots were dug, forty bushels to the 

 ton, measured and put into the cellar, and about three and 

 three-fourths tons were carried to market, the crop being but 

 little short of seventeen tons. 



Marblehead, November 15, 1856. 



HAMPSHIRE, FRANKLIN AND HAMPDEN. 



Statement of F. H. Williams. 



Carrots. — The piece of ground on which I raised my carrots, 

 has grown a like crop for two years past, and is of a sandy loam. 

 On May 22d I ploughed in twelve loads hog manure compost, 

 nine inches deep. The piece measures 115|- rods, and produced 

 16,763 lbs., or 372i- bushels, calling 45 lbs. to the bushel. In 

 the place of digging the carrots as usual, 1 ploughed with horses 

 the whole land, going round the piece, pulling out carrots and 

 breaking off tlie tops, after the team. By this arrangement, I 

 save handling the whole crop once, which is no small matter. 

 My root cellar is immediately under my barn floor, so that by 

 means of a trap door I can dump a load of carrots into my cellar 

 as easily as a load of dirt on the ground, which greatly lessens 

 the cost of harvesting. 



Expenses : — 

 Compost and carting, .... 



Ploughing and harrowing. 

 Planting, hoeing and seed, 

 Harvesting, ...... 



Taxes and interest on land. 



Value of crop : — / 



372|- bushels, at 35 cts. per bushel, . . $130 20 



Profit, $82 85 



Sunderland, 1856. 



