240 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Statement of J. B. Nev)comb. 



Carrots. — The land was a high, gravelly loam ; quantity, 40 

 rods. Produced about 100 bushels of carrots last year, manured 

 lightly. The land was in a fine condition, as it was ploughed 

 eight inches deep when pulling the carrots last fall. The ma- 

 nure was a w^eak compost, nearly one cord. Quantity of seed, 

 something less than a pound. Kind, orange carrot, planted 

 first of June with a seed sower. Weeding done by odd jobs, 

 partly with a wheel hoe, and partly by hand. Harvested by 

 running a Michigan plough as close to the drill as convenient, 

 and then pulling out by hand. Produced 152 bushels of 55 

 pounds. 



Expenses : — 

 Ploughing twice and harrowing, . . . -f 1 50 

 Manure, hauling and spreading, . . . 5 00 

 Hoeing and weeding, . . . . . 5 00 



Harvesting, ...... 4 00 



115 50 



Sold a part of the carrots at 30 cents per bushel of 50 lbs., 

 and fed out the rest. 



NOKTON. 



HAMPSHIRE. 



Statement of F. H. Williams. 



Potatoes. — The piece of ground, on which I raised my crop 

 of potatoes, measures 88 rods. It was sowed in August, 1856, 

 to wheat and clover, but the wheat was so badly winter-killed 

 that on the 28th of April, 1857, the land was planted to pota- 

 toes. After ploughing and harrowing, furrows were turned 

 three feet apart, and on them were dropped a small handful of 

 ashes, plaster and salt well mixed. The furrows were then 

 turned back to cover the whole, and the land was then rolled 

 with a two-horse roller. By this method two men and a horse 

 can cover three or four acres of potatoes in a day, as well as it 



