100 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



There can be no doubt that a great many more kinds might 

 be procnred by cultivating the seeds from the apples or balls, 

 which is just as easy as the cultivation of beets from seed, 

 though some would have us think it difficult and uncertain as 

 rearing chickens by artificial heat ; and, lest anybody should be 

 discouraged from making experiments because he has no hot-bed, 

 it is a fact that seed sown last June produced tubers as large as 

 hens' eggs, and with no more trouble or skill than is necessary 

 to raise beets or turnips. 



Amory Felton, Chairman. 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



Statement of William J. Clifford. 



Carrots. — My crop of Carrots was raised in the following 

 manner, on eighty-one rods of land, which, for six years pre- 

 vious, had been in a good state of cultivation. Before ploughing, 

 eight good ox cart loads of well rotted barnyard manure, most- 

 ly from the horse stable, were spread and ploughed about eight 

 inches deep, the last of May. Three or four days afterwards I 

 ploughed again, and sowed broadcast seventy pounds of guano ; 

 then raked well and sowed the seed with a machine, in rows 

 about sixteen inches apart. I hoed with the hand hoe three 

 times, but did not thin them out at all. In the early part of No- 

 vember I harvested from two square rods, which were considered 

 no better than the average of the whole field, eight hundred and 

 fifty pounds of carrots, making on the eighty-one rods, 34,425 

 lbs., being at the rate of 68,000 lbs., or 1,236|| bushels of 55 

 lbs., per acre. 



Expenses : — 

 Ploughing, ....... 



8 loads of manure at $2, ..... 



70 lbs. of guano, ...... 



Seed, raking and sowing, .... 



Hoeing, three times, » . 



Harvesting, ....... 



$45 10 



