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amount I do not know. The manure applied was about seven 

 cords of mussel-bed per acre. This year it had ten cords of 

 manure from the bam cellar, spread upon it and ploughed in, 

 the first of May, the plough running about ten inches. After 

 this ploughing, it remained a week or ten days, giving time for 

 the weeds to start, when a heavy harrow passed over the 

 ground, killing most of them. On the 20th of May it was 

 ridged up with a small plough, drawn by a horse, going twice 

 in the same furrow. My reason for thus ridging the land was, 

 I thought it less expensive to rake the rocks into the dead fur- 

 row, than in any Oither way to get rid of them ; though there 

 cannot be so many rows on a given piece, the seed being sown 

 on the ridge. The rows were twenty-two inches apart. After 

 the land was ridged, a common hand-rake passed over them, 

 leaving nearly a level surface. 



Upon this ground, one pound of seed of the common Orange 

 variety, was sown from a wooden machine. The carrots were 

 hoed three times, and weeded twice, the last hoeing being just 

 before the tops covered the ground. They were dug with a 

 spade, and the tops carefully saved and fed to my cows, the 

 tops at that time being knee high. Perhaps 1 ought to remark, 

 that on one side stood a row of apple trees, that damaged the 

 crop some five tons. 



The expense of cultivation was as follows : — 

 Interest on land, at 6 per cent., 

 Ten cords of manure, at $6 per cord, 

 Spreading the same, . 

 Ploughing do. 

 Harrowing do. 



Ploughing with horse and raking, 

 Seed, 

 Sowing, 



Hoeing and weeding. 

 Digging, 



Total expense, . . . $116 70 



Value of crop, thirty-four and a half tons, at 



$7 per ton, .... |241 50 



