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November, by running a plough parallel with the rows, within 

 four to six inches of the carrots, and then we turned them out 

 with the spade. 



EXPENSES OF CULTIVATION, 



Interest on land, . . . . . |5 00 



Three cords of manure, . . . . 18 00 



Spreading manure, ploughing, harrowing, raking and 



sowing, . . . . . . 6 00 



Seed, . . . . . . 1 25 



Hoeing, weeding, and harvesting, . . . 26 50 



|56 75 



Cherry Hill Farm, Beverly, Nov. 1851. 



John Bradstrect^s Statement. 

 I planted three bushels of two kinds of seedlings, tliat I 

 have. They were planted in three fields ; had fifty-four bush- 

 els ; found a few rotten in low land. I consider they did well 

 for these kinds. I also planted twenty-eight bushels of my 

 red seedlings on about four and one half acres of land ; had 

 eight hundred and eighty bushels, yielding a bushel to every 

 sixteen hills, and a fraction over thirty-one bushels from one 

 bushel of seed. They were planted in four different fields, 

 varying from the fourth to the twenty-eighth of May ; one 

 field was the highest land 1 cultivate, and one small piece 

 was as low as any. The seed and crop were measured. I give 

 the land according to my judgment. They are old fields, that 

 I have cultivated many times. I planted one piece of new 

 sward land, which 1 consider rather preferable for potatoes, less 

 than one acre, with six and one half bushels of seed, and had 

 two inmdred and eight bushels, two hundred of which were of 

 merchantable size, and all were sound. I never raised any pota- 

 toes that would yield so well, under every circumstance, as 

 these. Planted early or late, on high land or low, good or 

 shallow, whether the season be hot and dry, or wet and cold, they 

 have always done well, except under trees. 



I plough all my land in the spring, as I think land cannot be 



