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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



stones and lumps off, if any. Before using the rake I ran a 

 hand-roll over it to bed and settle it so that the seed sown 

 would work well. I took the two corner teeth out of my cul- 

 tivator, and used it with a horse. The rows would average 

 about twenty-two inches apart. I calculated to sow them 

 about three inches apart. 



In digging I ploughed by the side of them, deep, and close to 

 the roots so as to see them, and could then pull them up with 

 ease. The roots were so large it was very fast harvesting. 



Expenses of crop : — 

 Ploughing the land, .... 

 Fifteen loads of manure — ten of which to car 



rot crop, ..... 



Opening and covering drills, spreading manure 



in drills, raking, rolling, and sowing seed, 

 Carrot seed, ..... 



Drawing manure to lot and turning heap. 

 Cultivating as soon as could see the plant, 

 Cultivating and weeding, first time. 

 Cultivating and weeding and thinning, . 

 Pulling large weeds and cultivating, 

 Harvesting crop, ..... 

 Interest on land, ..... 



Credit to land : — 

 Three hundred and seventy-four bushels of 



carrots, ....... 



Carrot tops, ...... 



$1 50 



10 00 



§41 37 



$53 63 



Balance to crop, ..... 



The land was about one-half sown three years, the rest two 

 years in rotation. 



I sold some of the roots at twenty-five cents, and think the 

 remainder are worth that to me to feed. 



Cost of carrots, a trifle over eleven cents per bushel. 



Hardwick, November 28, 1853. 



