236 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Raking and sowing, 

 Hoeing, three times, 



Harvesting, 



$0 33 

 3 00 

 3 00 



ni 33 



Total, 



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 1,110 bushels to 

 the acre. 



Statement 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 :— 



$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. "\Ye 

 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, $87 00 



Expenses : — 



Ploughing, $1 25 



Harrowing, ...... 75 



