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ing, |1 87, hoeing, $1 33, harvesting, $3, seed, $1 56. Total, 

 $11 51. 



MiDDLEBOROUGH, Oct. 26, 1850. 



Austin J. Roherts^s Statement. 



The quarter acre I enter for premium on carrots, was planted 

 last year to onions. The soil is a sandy loam. On May 17th, 

 applied twenty-four loads of compost manure ; on the 21st it 

 was spread and ploughed in seven inches deep, the plough being 

 followed by a subsoil plough, loosening the soil to the depth of 

 fourteen inches. On the 23d, the orange variety was sown by 

 hand, eighteen inches apart ; the seed being old did not come 

 up well. 



Expenses. — Ploughing and subsoiling, ^1 ; hauling manure, 

 harrowing, spreading and rolling, $3 50 ; seed and sowing, $3 ; 

 hoeing and weeding, $5 40 ; harvesting, ^3. Total, $15 90. 

 The crop was 128 bushels, and the yield would have been 

 much larger, had the seed been good. The effect of subsoiling 

 was very apparent in the size and growth of the carrots. 



MiDDLEBOROUGH, NoV. 2, 1850, 



Mo?-rill AlleiVs Statement. 

 The field on which an experiment has been made this season 

 in subsoiling for the potato crop, has a hazel surface mould ; 

 the under stratum on a part of it is gravel, on a part yellow 

 earth, and on a small portion sand It was ploughed in the 

 month of April, the common plough running about six inches 

 deep, and the subsoil plough following on one half of the field, 

 which we intended should penetrate four inches deeper, but 

 rocks and other obstacles prevented it from uniformly reaching 

 that depth. The land was furrowed rather deeper than is 

 practised for corn, and some coarse manure from the yards put 

 under the seed potatoes. Sixty-four rods were planted with 

 Chenango potatoes, thirty-two rods on the subsoiled part and 

 the same on the other ; thirty-two rods with the long red, and 

 sixty-four rods with round red potatoes. The several kinds 

 were planted in the usual manner, and hoed twice. Of the 

 Chenangoes when dug, we took about three-fourths of a bushel, 

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