242 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Hoeing, twice, . . . . . . . . $5 00 



Harvesting, which is not done, estimated, . . . 2 50 



$20 26 



October 21st, I harvested one average rod of the turnips, 

 which weighed two hundred and thirtj-six pounds, making 



674|f bushels. 



Statement of Seth Sprague. 



Carrots. — The quarter of an acre of land entered by me for 

 premium on carrots, is a sandy loam, and was in carrots last 

 year. I spread sis ox-cart loads of stable manure, ploughed 

 eight inches deep ; spread one hundred pounds Peruvian guano, 

 prepared with thirty bushels of peat or swamp mud, which was 

 well harrowed in ; hand-raked, and planted with a seed-sower 

 the first week in May, with the Orange carrot, in rows, fourteen 

 inches apart; thinned at weeding to four and six inches in the 

 rows. On the 22d instant, dug one square rod, a fair average 

 of the field, which weighed three hundred and eighteen pounds, 

 which, at fifty-six pounds to the bushel, is two hundred and 

 twenty-seven bushels — nine hundred and eight bushels to 

 the acre. 



The expense of cultivating, exclusive of the guano and 

 manure, was twenty dollars, perhaps something more ; as weeds 

 were plenty and vigorous, we bestowed extra labor. 



Beets. — The quarter of an acre of land of beets, entered 

 by me for a premium, is a sandy loam, moist but not wet ; was 

 cropped with beets last year. Spread six cart-loads stable ma- 

 nure, ploughed it about eight inches deep. It was subsoiled 

 last year. I spread one hundred pounds Peruvian guano, pre- 

 pared with thirty bushels peat or swamp mud, which was well 

 harrowed in ; hand-raked, and planted with a seed-sower, the 

 first week in May, with mangel wurzel, in rows two feet 

 apart, and thinned to one foot in the rows. On the 2 2d inst. 

 selected one square rod, in two places ; gathered and weighed 

 the product, three hundred and twelve bushels and a half to 

 the quarter acre, or one thousand two hundred and fifty bush- 

 els to the acre. The growth was vigorous in the early part of 



