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the depth of seven inclies. The growth of the crop I attribute 

 to the thorough pulverization of the soil, which was accom- 

 plished at the time of sowing, by the use of one of Wood- 

 worth's Planters, in sowing the seed, which implement I con- 

 sider preferable to the rake. Sowed in drills, eighteen inches 

 apart, per row. 



CARROT FIELD. 



July 



1852. 



May 14, Five loads long manure, 

 " 20, Carting and spreading same, 

 " 22, Team ploughing and harrowing, 



June 6, Sowing seed with machine, 

 " 6, Seed, three ounces, 

 18, Weeding and thinning, 

 8, Ploughing between rows, . 



Aug. 15, Ploughing between rows, . 



Nov. 8, Digging, topping and drawing. 



Interest on land, at ^2 per acre. 



1852. CARROT FIELD. 



Nov. 10, 219|- bushels carrots, at 30 cents, 

 Expense brought forward. 



Dr. 



$12 45 



Cr. 



$65 85 

 12 45 



Profit, $53 40 



The weight of carrots, per bushel, fifty-five pounds. 

 Sunderland, Nov. 15, 1852. 



F. Mather's Statement. 



The crop which I propose to offer for premium, is one-half 

 acre turnips, known in this region as the Michigan Turnip. 

 Last year the land on which they were raised was planted with 

 corn, using about thirty loads of manure per acre ; this year no 

 manure was used. It was planted about the 12th of May, 

 with a seed planter, in rows, two and a half feet apart, the plants 

 standing twelve or fifteen inches apart, after transplanting. 

 They were hoed three times; harvested the first week in No- 

 vember, producing four hundred and five bushels. 



