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was planted with cabbages last year, (which proved a total 

 failure,) with about 25 cart loads of manure per acre. This 

 year I did not put on a shovelful. I sowed them about the 

 25th of April, in drills 18 inches apart. They cost as follows : 



Ploughing ground twice, 

 Seed and sowing, 

 Weeding, . 

 Harvesting, 

 Marketing, 



81 00 



1 00 



2 00 



2 00 



3 00 



89 00 



4,800 lbs. carrots, at GO cents per 100 lbs., . $28 80 

 Tewksbury, November, 1859. 



MIDDLESEX SOUTH. 



Statement of S. D. Davenport. 



Carrots. — On the 43| rods of ground on which my carrots, 

 were raised, the soil is rich, having a thick surface of loam rest- 

 ing on clay bottom. I have ploughed it the last seven years, 

 three times each year, from 8 to 12 inches deep. In 1857, the 

 land being well stocked with rocks, I had them sunk at a cost 

 of 840. I would not have had them dug and carried from the 

 land, if it could have been done without any expense to me. 

 Last spring I spread one cord of manure on the land from the 

 yard. The first day of June I sowed three-fourths of a pound 

 16 inches apart, with a machine. I gave them three hand 

 weedings, and when well up, sowed on 6 bushels ashes. Owing 

 to the short, cold season, I have not had so small a crop for 

 three years. There have been carrots raised on the same land 

 for the last ten or eleven years, and my crops have improved 

 in quantity and quality each year. 



Or. 



By 251 bushels, of 12,550 pounds, at 30 cts. per bushel, 875 30 

 Carrot tops, . . . . . . . 1 50 



876 80 



