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To spread the manure evenly before ploughing, then com- 

 mence with a side-hill plough on one side, ploughing beam 

 deep a strip about one rod wide, then rake off the stones and 

 whatever else I wish, into the furrow, then plough another 

 strip, and so proceed until done. Sow, with seed-sower, 

 eighteen inches to two feet, between the rows, and thin them 

 out, the second time hoeing, so as to leave them from eight to 

 ten inches in the row. I sow at the rate of three pounds of 

 seed to the acre, it being less work to weed them when small 

 than where they are scattering, for you can, if you have them 

 thick, cut them out with the hoe, leaving two or three in a 

 place, which is much less work for the fingers,^ than where you 

 have to watch for fear of losing one. Weed and hoe often 

 enough to keep thoroughly clean from weeds, not letting any 

 go to seed. In this way I find less work in raising a crop of 

 carrots on the same ground, each succeeding year. 



Fifteen loads of manure. 



Four days ploughing and sowing, . 



Twelve days hoeing and weeding, . 



Ten days harvesting. 



One and three-quarters pound of seed, 



Use of land — ninety-eight rods, 



Four hundred and forty bushels, at 25 cents. 



Profit, $63 44 



Crop raised, 440 bushels ; weighed, 50 lbs. to the bushel, 40 

 bushels of the above crop. 



Leyden, Nov. 13, 1852. 



Oliver Williams's Statement. - 



I submit the following statement of the produce of twenty- 

 eight rods of ground, sown to carrots the past season. The 

 land on which they grew is naturally moist, with a clayey sub- 

 soil ; the condition good ; grew corn on the same in 1851, 

 spreading twenty loads long manure to the acre. The land 

 has been manured this year the same, and ploughed under, to 



