ROOT CROPS. 170 



Dr. 

 One cord manure and carting, 

 Ploughing, $1.30, seed and sowing, $1, 

 Hoeing, $6, digging, $4, 

 Interest and taxes on land, . 



Profits, ..... 



$76 80 



I can sell them quick for 30 cents per bushel. I would 

 recommend all who can to cultivate this valuable root every 

 year. At the present prices of grain and hay, I consider them 

 worth $14 per ton. I never sell any of my carrots ; I consider 

 them very valuable for horses and milch cows. 



Hopkinton, November 1, 1859. 



I hereby certify that I raised from forty -three rods of land, 

 two hundred and fifty-one bushels of carrots. Also on 31-j 4 ^ 

 rods of land, one hundred and ten bushels Swedish turnips. 



S. D. Davenport. 



I hereby certify that I measured the above turnips and carrots 

 for S. D. Davenport, and his certificate is correct. 



Anthony Kearns. 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



Statement of John Brooks, Jr. 



Potatoes. — The half acre on which my Davis' seedling pota- 

 toes grew, is a wet soil, with a clay subsoil. The crop of 1857-8 

 was grass, without manure. It was ploughed once, May 29, 

 about eight inches deep ; furrowed, and manured with seven 

 and one-half loads,* spread before ploughing, and 150 pounds 

 plaster in the hill ; planted, June 7, in hills, with seven bushels 

 large potatoes, cut, two pieces per hill ; twenty-four hills per 

 square rod ; hoed once, and harvested October 5. 



* The statements concerning cultivated crops are made by the Secretary 

 from the blank forms sent to the several competitors. In all cases where 

 manure is estimated in loads, the loads are understood to contain thirty bushels 

 each. 



