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the winter in a cellar, and then thrown out for manure — the 

 entire crops on the land not paying the expense of cultivation, 

 by one-half On or about the 20th of May, 1852, the land was 

 sowed in drills, eighteen inches apart, to carrots, by a machine 

 bought of Mr. Wm. Elliot, for the sum of three dollars and 

 twenty-five cents, the land being first prepared by deep plough- 

 ing with a common plough, then raked and levelled — about 

 thirty loads of horse manure being spread on the land before 

 ploughing. The labor of preparing the land, sowing the seeds, 

 cultivating and harvesting the crop, I contracted for at the 

 commencement, for the sum of seventy-five dollars, which 

 seemed to me and others as an extravagant price, but as some 

 stone were to be removed in the job, I consoled myself with 

 the belief that I might stand it "just this once." The crop 

 has just been harvested. 



As to the value of the carrots, I have always believed them 

 worth as much as oats, by the bushel, to feed to horses, which 

 are the only animals I keep. Four or five tons of them I have 

 sold at from $12 to $15 per ton ; at $12 I could sell them all, 

 any day, and the sum would amount to $192. Add to this, 

 four dollars, a sum for which I sold the tops as they lay in the 

 field, and four more dollars, which I hope to get as premium, 

 and the sum would amount to $200. Deduct from this, $75, 

 paid for labor, and $25 more, for the cost of seed and my own 

 care and skill — the last being a charge I make from habit — 

 and it will leave $100 as the net income from the three-fourths 

 of an acre. 



Wendell, Nov. 15, 1852. 



Aaron O. BuddingtorCs Statement. 



The land upon which I raised my crop of carrots this sea- 

 son, was in a high state of cultivation, having had carrots on 

 it three, and part of it five, years in succession, with an increase 

 of crop each year, it being manured at the rate of thirty cart 

 loads per year, for the last three years. The soil is a deep 

 loam, free from any excess of water, and xesting on hard pan. 

 I manured it this year, at the rate of thirty loads to the acre, 

 of barnyard manure. My mode of cultivation is as follows: 



