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were put into my barn cellar — making on this 101 rods, 28,255 

 lbs. or 665 bushels, equal to about 894 bushels per acre. One 

 quarter acre of this land produced at the rate of 960 bushels per 

 acre ; leached ashes being used instead of manure of equal cost. 

 This lot of carrots was cultivated in the manner that I have 

 advocated for the last ten years, namely, deep culture, between 

 the rows (which are 15 inches apart) with a light hoe as soon 

 as the young plant appears, and as often as once a week until 

 the first or middle of August — never in wet weather, but when 

 the sun shines. 



The great advantage of underdrainage has shown itself on 

 this whole lot the present season, both in the growth and 

 healthy appearance of the apple trees and all kinds of vege- 

 tables. 



This lot is 37 rods long, 8|- rods wide at the south end, and 

 about 17] rods wide at the north end, and descends 12 inches 

 to the rod to the north-west. The south part has always been 

 wet, mostly owing to water trickling down from land above ; 

 last winter a drain was cut four feet wide and four feet deep 

 across the upper end of the lot, and small stones filled in to 

 within 18 inches of the top — old hay and straw covered over 

 to prevent the earth from falling down between the stones, and 

 the earth brought back. This drain was commenced within a 

 rod of the south-east corner and run angleways until it emptied 

 into the road, four rods below the south-west corner of the lot. 

 Water was discharged at the outlet of the drain until the 

 middle of June. The field was worked full ten days earlier 

 than ever before in a like season. Your committee will re- 

 member when here, of my showing them where a similar drain 

 had been cut about centreways of this lot, and an old wall 

 that used to divide this in two lots had been used to fill up the 

 drain, which empties into the road. Carrots grew quite as 

 large on top of the drain as anywhere. 



It will be noticed that I have not brought any of the un- 

 spent manures to the credit of my present carrot crop as has 

 been usual; neither has any mention been made of the growth 

 of 160 apple trees, 35 of which stand on the carrot ground. 



Sutton, Nov. 26, 1852. 



