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inches apart, and sowed with Swedish turnips, where the carrots 

 were missing. 



Value of crop : — 

 272-/j- bushels, 55 lbs. per bush., at 33 cts., . -$90 00 



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Expenses : — 



Manure, $15 ; ploughing and harrowing, 82 ; 



seed and sowing, $1, ..... $18 00 



Carting and spading manure, $2 ; hoeing, $8 ; 



harvesting, $7 ; interest, $2.50, . . . 19 50 



837 50 



Net profit, .... $52 50 



Sunderland, November 15, 1856. 



NORFOLK. 



Letter on Carrots. 



Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, President, Sfc. 



Dear Sir: — You ask ^ov facts in relation to the cultivation 

 of carrots, and the product per acre. 



I have had five successive crops, (1853-56,) the yield varying 

 from 850 to 950 bushels per acre, and from one to two acres 

 under cultivation. 



The soil, naturally good, having a thick loam surface, and clay 

 and gravel subsoil ; rather too wet, and never having been 

 drained and subsoiled. 1 hope for increased product. It has 

 been ploughed once in autumn and twice in the spring. South- 

 ern slope o£ a hill, and well cleared of stones. 



The first year I put on seven to eight cords of manure, the 

 land having previously been badly used ; subsequently, about 

 six cords of cow and horse manure. The rows twenty-four 

 inches distance for four seasons ; at the last, eighteen inches. 

 Three weedings by hand. I think I should have been a gainer 

 by giving seven or eight cords of manure. 



At forty bushels a ton of two thousand pounds, the crops 

 have averaged twenty-four tons. Sold, deliverable on the 

 groimd, at $11 per ton, and if delivered, $12 per ton. In 



