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VALUE OF CROP. 



18 tons Carrots, at $12, - - - $216.00 

 Expenses, 41.60 



Net profit, - - - . . $174.50 

 The work was mostly clone by the inmates belongin;^ to the insti- 

 tution, but I have charged for their labor about what I think would 

 be the cost. 



Most respectfully submitted, 



Isaac II. Meserve, 

 Superintendent of Roxhury Almshouse. 



This is the fourth year that I have cultivated carrots on the same 

 piece of ground. It has never produced less than 15 tons to the 

 acre. It is also set to an orchard of apple trees, which are in a 

 flourishing condition. I have spread about the same quantity of 

 manure each year, and the ground is in good condition for a crop of 

 carrots next year. I. H. M. 



This is to certify, that I measured off one acre from a piece of 

 carrots on Brook Farm ; I also measured six hundred and thirteen 

 baskets from said acre ; I weighed three baskets, which averaged 

 fifty-nine pounds to the basket, making eighteen tons one hundred 

 pounds. Dan T. Boynton. 



REPORT ON FRUITS AND FRUIT CULTURE. 



According to the old Hebrew story, man was placed in a garden 

 to till and to keep it, and man will never be contented and happy till 

 he gets back into a garden again. The tales of the gardens .of 

 Alcinous and the Ilespendcs prove to us that, even in ancient times, 

 men coimccted the golden age with golden apples, and put Paradise 

 always in gardens. And, with the coming of the future Paradise 

 and the bright millcrmium of human hopes and aspirations, there is 

 always associated the thought of the whole earth as one great garden 

 of beauty and "delight" — (the translation of the word "Eden'') — 



