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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Raking and sowing, 

 Hoeing, three times, 

 Harvesting, . 



10 33 

 3 00 

 3 00 



$11 33 



J. O ttll. •••••• 



This lot contained one-eighth of an acre. On another lot of 

 the same size there were 347 pounds to the square rod, which 

 is at the rate of 138| bushels to the eighth, or 1,1 10 bushels to 

 the acre. 



Statemetit of Leonard Day. 



Carrots. — The ground was ploughed in the fall, and again in 

 the spring ; the ground prepared and the carrots sown about 

 the last of April. The amount grown on eighty-four rods was 

 six hundred and fifty bushels. 



Cost of cultivation as follows : — 

 Two ploughings, . . . . . . . $2 00 



Preparing the ground. 

 Sowing, 

 Weeding twice 

 Harvesting, . 



$40 00 



HAMPSHIRE. 



Statement of O. and F. H. Williams. 



Carrots. — The half acre of carrots which we enter for pre- 

 mium is a sandy loam. Part of it was in carrots last year, and 

 the remainder has been in grass for twenty years. We 

 ploughed with a Michigan plough, eight inches deep, and 

 planted in rows from eighteen to twenty inches apart. 



Value of crop : — 

 348 bushels, at 25 cents. 



Expenses : — 

 Ploughing, . 

 Harrowing, 



$87 00 



$1 25 



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