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could be done by hand, if the ground is mellow. I always 

 salt my potatoe hills and have never been troubled with rotten 

 potatoes. I hoed three times, mostly with the horsehoe, turned 

 the furrows toward the hills and harvested on the 1.6th of Sep- 

 tember. 



Value of crop : — 

 118 bushels at 50 cents, $59 00 



Expenses : — 

 4 bushels of seed at 50 cents, . 

 8 loads of compost, ..... 

 Planting and tending, . . . 

 Harvesting, ...... 



Net profit, not including interest and taxes, $39 00 



SuxDEKLAND, November 15, 1857. 



Statement of F. H. Williams. 



Carrots. — I raised my carrots on 45 rods of ground, which 

 in 1856 produced oats and was seeded with Timothy. But 

 the winter was so severe that the grass seed was destroyed. 

 Last spring the piece was manured at the rate of twenty loads 

 to the acre, and planted in drills, two feet apart, cultivated 

 with the horsehoe and harvested, as follows : — We ploughed 

 round the piece, running the plough close to the row on one 

 side. Then the hands follow, easily pulling up the carrots, 

 twisting off the tops and throwing them into piles on the 

 ploughed side. In this way, with the help of one man, I have 

 in a day dug and deposited in the cellar 110 bushels. 



Value of crop : — 



134 bushels at 25 cents, $33 50 



Tops fed to the cows, . . . . . 1 50 



$35 00 



Expenses : — 

 Ploughing, 50 cents, and seed, 40 cents, . . $0 90 

 Sowing with hand planter, .... 25 



