106 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Expenses : — 

 Seed, ploughing, harrowing and planting, 

 Manure and carting, ^9 ; ashes, ^2, 

 Interest, $4 ; hoeing, $3 ; harvesting, $4, 



Net profit, . 



Sunderland, Nov. 15, 1855. 



$4 00 

 11 00 

 11 00 



$26 00 

 $18 55 



Statement of J. Edwards Porter. 



Carrots. — My carrots were raised on five-sixteenths of an 

 acre of rich loam, ploughed ten or twelve inches deep, which 

 had borne carrots for three years. In 1855, I manured with 

 ten loads of earth, that had sucked the juices of the barnyard 

 for twelve months, and with fifty pounds of guano, ploughed in 

 eleven inches deep. I made ridges, eighteen inches apart, with 

 a double mould board plough, and deposited the seed on the top 

 of the ridges with a hand-drill. 



Yalue of Crop : — 

 201 bushels, at 40 cents. 



Expenses : — 

 Compost, $10 ; guano, $1.50, 

 Ploughing and harrowing, $1, 

 Seed and sowing, $1.75 ; hoehig, $6, 

 Harvesting, $8 ; interest, $3, 



Net profit, .... 



Hadley, Nov. 14, 1855. 



$80 40 



$11 50 



1 00 



7 75 



11 00 



-$31 25 

 $49 15 



Statement of Levi P. Warner. 



Turnips. — My turnips were grown on fifty-seven and one-half 

 rods of land, which, in 1854, was planted to corn, and sown to 

 clover, at the last hoeing. In 1855, after taking off the hay 

 crop, I ploughed and harrowed it, and sowed six ounces of seed, 

 broadcast, applying a dressing of one hundred pounds of super- 



