ROOT CROPS. 



107 



phosphate of lima ; and added seven bushels of ashes when the 

 plants were up. 



Value of Crop : — 

 256 bushels, or 6 tons and 800 lbs. at 



per ton, 



§38 40 



Ploughing, harrowing and sowing, $1 ; seed, 20 



cents; lime, $2.87, $4 07 



Ashes, 87 cents ; thinning, 50 cents ; harvesting, 



$3.50 ; interest, 68 cents, . . . . 5 55 



Net profit. 



SUNDEELAND, NoV. 17, 1855. 



-$9 62 



$28 78 



NORFOLK. 



Statement of John H. Robinson. 



Carrots. — Herewith I send you a statement of the yield of 

 my carrot crop, grown on one acre and a twelfth of land, as per 

 certificates of measurement. 



They are all the orange carrot, and were sown, about the 25th 

 of May, upon ground carefully prepared, by good dressing with 

 good manure, and ploughing twice before ridging ; the manure 

 spread after the first ploughing. The entire cost of labor and 

 manure I estimate as follows : — 



Ten cords manure from barn cellar, and spreading. 



Ploughing, twice, .... 



Ridging, and preparing for seed. 



Sowing, with hand-sowing machine, 



First hoeing, .... 



Second hoeing, and hand weeding, . 



Third " 



Fourth, " only. 



Labor, digging, topping and putting into cellar, 



xotai. •••••• 



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$142 25 



