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out and spread them thin on the floor to dry. After being 

 spread in the open air for fifteen days, and being fully dry, I 

 measured up from what grew on the land described 9J bushels 

 of beans, a sample of which is presented for inspection. 

 Barnstable, Oct. 7, 1851. 



Root Crops. 

 A gratuity of $3 was awarded to Joshua Crowell, of Dennis, 

 for a crop of 2301 bushels of carrots, raised on one quarter acre 

 of land, no premium for this crop having been offered by the 

 society. 



Joshua CrowelVs Statement. 



The land on which my quarter acre of carrots was raised 

 this season, is a yellow loam, and is part of a tract of land, 

 measuring four and a half acres, that I bought in October, 

 1845, at $23 per acre. I manured it for the first time in 1849, 

 by ploughing under sea- weed, at the rate of 100 horse cart- 

 loads to the acre, and planted it with potatoes, which came in 

 very light. In tlie winter and spring of 1850, it was heavily 

 mannred with a compost of sea-weed and barn-yard manure and 

 the carcass of a hump-back whale, say a hundred horse cart- 

 loads to tlie acre, and again planted with potatoes, nearly all of 

 which rotted. 



Last April, I measured ofl^ one quarter of an acre, and carted 

 on twelve horse cart-loads of compost manure, and May 1st, 

 sowed carrots in drills, east and west, at the average width of 

 twenty-six inches. 



Expenses of Crop. 



April 20th. — To 12 horse-cart loads of manure, - $8 00 



'* Carting and spreading same, - - 1 60 



May 1. — Ploughing and harrowing, - - - 1 00 



" Seed and sowing, - _ - - 60 



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