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Four loads of manure, - - - $4 00 



Sowing, - - - - 2 00 



Hoeing, - - - - - 18 00 



Harvesting, - - - - 3 00 



Pl 00 



Net gain, - - - - |47 21 



M. Hitchcock's Statement. 



The crop of carrots which I present to notice was grown on 

 forty-eight rods of light sandy land, and from which a crop of 

 carrots has been taken for the two preceding years ; in the 

 spring of 1851, two cords of stable manure were spread and 

 the land ploughed, being fine and mellow, the furrows were 

 levelled, and prepared for the seed with a hand-rake, the seed 

 was sown in drills twenty inches apart — they were hoed three 

 times, and kept free from weeds. I have gathered two hun- 

 dred and forty bushels, weighing forty-six pounds per bushel, 

 and have sold and used twenty-five bushels, which were pulled 

 in thinning the crop, and are not included in this estimate. 



Value of crop, at thirty-three cents per bushel, $79 20 



Expenses for 

 Manure, - - - 



Ploughing, 

 Raking and sowing, 

 Hoeing, - - - 



Harvesting and marketing, 

 Interest on land, - 



26 75 



Net gain, - - - - $52 45 



Jonathan Carlisle's Statement. 

 I send you a statement of a crop of carrots raised by me the 

 present year on one acre of light sandy loam ; this acre of land 

 was iu part planted with potatoes and melons, and the 

 remainder was sowed with millet the last year. The melons 

 were manured in the hill ; no other manure was used on the 

 land. The yield of potatoes was about fifty bushels ; on the 



