ROOT CROPS. 281 



Statement of O. and F. H. Williams. 



Potatoes. — The land which produced the crop, has been a 

 pasture three or four years. TJie soil is light and sandy, side 

 hill, descending toward the south-west. April 24th, wo ploughed 

 from three to six inches deep. The furrows were turned and 

 filled with manure, after the potatoes were dropped, together 

 with a handful of plaster and salt. These were turned back, 

 covering all about four inches deep, and saved at least one-half, 

 if not three-fourths the labor of planting with the hoe. Our 

 seed was the genuine peach blow. We hill with all the dirt we 

 can, and imitate, in this respect, the Irish mode of tillage, which 

 we consider preferable to flat tillage. We used small potatoes, put 

 one into each hill, and where they were large, cut them and used 

 at the rate of eight or nine bushels per acre. 



Value of crop : — 

 123 bushels, at 50 cts., $61 50 



Expenses : — 

 Ploughing and harrrowing, f 2 ; manure, $8 ; 



manuring, furrowing and covering, $2.80, . $12 80 

 Seed, $1.20 ; hoeing, $3.50 ; weeding, $1.25 ; 



harvesting, $8 ; interest and taxes, $2, . 15 95 



28 75 



Net profit, $32 75 



Sunderland, November 15, 1856. 



Statement of David Hubbard. 



Carrots. — The land is a sandy, gravelly loam, which has 

 produced corn the past two years, measures Q6 rods, and is in a 

 fair state of cultivation. I ploughed in May, and subsoiled 

 fifteen inches deep. I put on twenty loads of compost manure, 

 ploughed in ten loads, harrowed in the other ten, and raked 

 thoroughly. I planted about the last of May with one of 

 Noursc, Mason & Co.'s seed-sowers, about one-third of a pound 

 of pure orange carrot seed, in rows eighteen inches apart. At 

 the third hoeing, I thinned, leaving them from three to five 



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