ROOT CROPS. 



101 



34,425 lbs. carrots — 17 tons 425 lbs. — at say 



$12 per ton, $206 25 



Tops, ....... 



8 00 



Profit, 



-$214 55 

 $169 54 



Statement of Joel Haywood. 



Carrots. — The crop of carrots which I offer for premium was 

 7,166 pounds, grown upon twenty-one square rods of ground ; 

 making the amount grown upon an average square rod Sll^*! 

 lbs., making one hundred and twenty-four bushels of fifty-five 

 pounds to the eighth, or nine hundred and ninety-two bushels to 

 the acre. The ground had been in grass five years previous to 

 the fall of 1854, when it was broken up with a double Michigan 

 plough, eight inches deep. In May, 1855, I spread four loads 

 of green manure, from my barn cellar, and ploughed it in twelve 

 inches deep ; then spread twenty loads of compost, and harrowed 

 it in, and bushed and sowed it, the 19th of May, in rows, four- 

 teen inches apart ; then hoed three times and thinned from two 

 to three inches apart. I have never raised the same amount of 

 carrots, with the same labor. 



$15 08 



Value of crop: — 

 \ tons of 

 For tops, 



3^ tons of carrots, at $12 per ton. 



$42 00 

 2 00 



-$44 00 



Net profit, 



$28 92 



