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ploughed twelve inches deep about the 20th of May. It was 

 then raked with common hand rakes and the seed sown on 

 the 28th of May, the rows eighteen inches apart — with one 

 pound of orange carrot seed. The piece was hoed once and 

 weeded by hand twice. The carrots were harvested on the 

 first week of November, and the crop resulted as above stated. 

 Perhaps it ought to be stated that I took a carrot crop from 

 the same piece of land last year, and for which I received a 

 premium. I shall continue the same crop on the same land 

 another year. The soil is composed of dark and yellow loam, 

 and was fenced off from an old pasture three years since. 



EXPENSES OF CULTIVATION. 



Interest on land. 



Six cords compost, 



Spreading manure, ploughing, harrowing, raking, and 



sowing seed. 

 Seed, ..... 

 Hoeing, weeding, and harvesting. 



VALUE OF CARROTS. 



Fifteen and a half tons, at $10, 

 Tops, as fodder for cows. 



Net profit, ...... $105 50 



In view of this result, I would ask what crop makes better 

 returns than carrots well attended to ? 



Richard P. Waters. 

 Cherry Hill Farm, Beverly, Nov., 1852. 



Charles Frenches State?nent. 



I offer one-half of an acre of land, in potatoes, for premiurn. 

 The land a bog, in a wild state, at commencement, and yield- 

 ing nothing. 



Cost of digging up, with spade, . . . $6 00 



« " planting, . . . . . 13 00 



« « hoeing, . . . . 11 00 



