228 - MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Ploughing three-fourths of a day — two men and two 

 yoke of oxen — equal to 1| day for one man and the 

 same for one yoke of oxen ; carting and spreading 

 manure, harrowing and brushing — two days for one 

 . man and one yoke of oxen — calling a day of ox work 

 equal to a day of man's work, you have, for one man, 

 in preparing the ground, . . , . - . 7 days 

 Sowing the seed, one man, half a day, . . . i. " 

 In all, fifteen days for one man in weeding and hoeing, 15 " 

 In all, fourteen days for one man's harvesting, . . 14 " 

 Two and a half day's work of oxen, ploughing out 



and carting carrots, . . . . . . 2^ ^ 



Total labor, . 39 days 



For seed, $1.50 — Manure, (the ground retaining half 



the value,) $9.25, $10 75 



For 39 days' cultivating and harvesting, . 48 75 



$59 50 



Total value of crop, 13,687 pounds of carrots, 



at 6} mills per pound, 88 96 



Shrewsbcry, November 5, 1853. 



Mr. Dodge, of Sutton, entered two lots of carrots for pre- 

 mium ,• one containing a quarter and the other half an acre. 

 His crop on the quarter weighing only 9,250 pounds, will not 

 entitle him to a premium, as the rules of the society require 

 the weight of roots on that amount of land to be ten thousand 

 pounds. On the half acre entered by Mr. Dodge, it will be 

 seen by his statement which follows, that he raised 17,450 

 pounds of carrots at a ^ro rata cost of $30.58, yielding thereby 

 a net profit of $72.12, on a single half acre of land. 



Mr. Dodge, cither from his long experience in growing root 

 crops, or from some other cause, seems to have acquired the 

 faculty of raising carrots with less expense than other people. 

 It will be seen by comparing the statements of the three com- 

 petitors the present year, that Mr. Dodge cultivated three- 

 quarters of an acre at an expense of $45.87 only; whereas 

 Mr. Ward cultivated only seventy-two and three-fourths square 

 rods of ground, being seven and one-fourth rods less than half 



