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some previous years, in the cultivation of carrots and onions. Last 

 year it was enriched with compost manure, using about seven cords 

 to the acre. The portion sowed for onions produced at the rate of 

 275 bushels to the acre ; that for carrots, at 550 bushels per acre. 

 On the first of May last, three and a half cords of compost manure 

 was spread upon it, then ploughed eight inches deep, taking a small 

 furrow-slice, so that the land was not inverted. On the fourth of 

 the month, it was marked out in rows, four feet apart each way ; 

 then planted, putting manure in the hill, of the same kind and quan- 

 tity as had been spread. The large, eight-rowed corn was used for 

 seed, allowing five kernels per hill. During the month of June, the 

 cultivator was often passed through the growing corn, but little was 

 done with the hoe. The surface was kept level, and sown with 

 grass seed on the 23d of July. The top stalks were cut the first 

 •week in September, — corn harvested November 1st and 2d. The 

 product, as you will see by an accompanying cercificate, was 6,365 

 net pounds ; allowing seventy -five pounds per bushel, making eighty- 

 four and thirteen-fifteenths bushels. 



Estimated Expenses of Cultivation. 

 Ploughing with a pair of horses, in three hours. 

 Two and a half cords of barn cellar manure, at ^7 per cord, 

 Four and a half cords of meadow mud and soil, 

 Cost of mixing, two days' labor, 

 Carting and applying, - ... 



Dropping and covering corn, .... 



Seed Corn (1 peck), .... 



Use of Cultivator, - - - - " - 



Hoeing, - ..... 



Furrowing, ...... 



Cutting and binding top-stalks, 



Harvesting, -.-... 



$44 25 



Estimated Value of Crop, 

 6,365 pounds, at one cent per pound, - - $63,65 



Yalue of fodder, - - . - - 17 00 



$80 65 



