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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



muscle mud were spread and ploughed in eight inches deep, 

 and harrowed, then spread three and one-half cords of compost 

 manure, same as above, and ploughed in seven or eight inches, 

 harrowed and bushed. The seed was sown on the 23th of 

 May in rows fourteen inches apart, the plants thinned to 

 between one and two inches apart, hoed four times, and 

 weeded three times. 



Expense of crop: — 

 Ploughing, harrowing and bushing, 

 Seed and sowing, 

 Weeding and hoeing, . 

 23 cords of mud at $4 per cord, . 

 : U cords of manure at $5 per cord, 

 Harvesting, .... 

 Marketing, ..... 



Credit by 7,300 pounds carrots at 37| cents 

 per 100 pounds, ..... 



Credit by 23,552 pounds carrots at 45 cents 

 per 100 pounds, ..... 



Balance, ...... 



859 00 



133 35 



;74 35 



Mabblehead, November 14, 1859. 



Statement of C. P. Jaqueth. 



Potatoes. — I enter for premium a crop of potatoes raised on 

 eighty-seven rods of land, from which I harvested 13614 bush- 

 els, sixty pounds to the bushel, or about 251] bushels to the 

 acre, of the Danvers reds. 



About three-fifths was the previous year planted with corn 

 and potatoes, with one shovelful of compost manure in the 

 hill, and the remaining two-fifths was planted with potatoes 

 the 24th of June, after the hay crop was taken off — which was 

 very light — with plaster in the hill, at the rate of 2,200 pounds 

 to the acre. 



They were affected by disease, and consequently were almost 

 a total failure. 



