36 ESSEX SOCIETY. 



Benjamin P. Ware's Statement. 



I offer for your consideration a crop of carrots raised upon 

 land of a gravelly loam, on which was raised a crop of potatoes 

 for two years previous, from a dressing of compost made of barn 

 and sea manure, at the rate of six cords per acre each year. 



In preparing the land for carrots last spring, I first spread on 

 a compost made from meadow-mud, dug in the August previous, 

 and kelp (taken from the sea-shore during the winter) in equal 

 proportions, the whole being thoroughly mixed and pulverized, 

 before spreading, at the rate of eight cords per acre, which was 

 well ploughed in, and allowed to remain ten days : then the land 

 was cultivated with a large ox-cultivator, made upon a larger 

 scale than those commonly used with a horse ; after which it 

 was harrowed, and then dragged with a common stone-drag 

 drawn sideways, which in some instances, I think, answers a 

 better purpose than a roller ; the seed was sowed in drills, four- 

 teen inches apart, at the rate of three quarters of a pound per 

 acre. 



The carrots were hoed and weeded twice during the season, 

 thoroughly, and the third time slightly. As no weeds had gone 

 to seed for two years previous, the process of weeding was much 

 more easily accomplished. The crop was harvested by topping 

 the carrots with a sharp shovel as they stood in the ground, and 

 then ploughed out, which is a very expeditious method. 



The weight of the crop was ascertained by digging, and throw- 

 ing the carrots, in heaps of six several rows, in different parts of 

 the piece without selection, and when dried, were weighed : the 

 rows in the whole piece were counted and multiplied by the 

 mean weight of one row, resulting as follows; upon 147^ 

 rods of land there were grown, 32 tons, 965 lbs. of carrots. 



Marblchead, November 12th, 1847. 



Henry Bushln/s Statement. 



The field that I have cultivated with carrots, the present year, 

 contains ninety-five rods. 



