326 HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY. 



Aaron Budding, of Leydcn, on half an acre, manured with 

 fifteen loads of stable manure, raised 384 bushels, or 768 bush- 

 els per acre. 



The average product, per acre, of the crops entered for the 

 premium of this society, the present year, is 753 bushels. 



We have noticed in the document before named, several 

 instances of the successful cultivation of this crop on the same 

 land for several years in succession, among which is that of 

 John W. Lincoln, of Worcester, who has raised them on the 

 same land for five consecutive years. 



In regard to the labor of raising them, Jonathan Copeland, 

 of West Bridgewater, thinks it requires about the same to 

 raise one-fourth acre of carrots as one acre of corn. 



In regard to the value of carrots as food for animals, the 

 editor of the Plough, Loom, and Anvil, says, in June, 1852 : — > 

 " We have had twenty communications from various sources, 

 all of which concur in saying that a peck of carrots will, with 

 the same quantity of hay, keep working horses in as good con- 

 dition, and many say better, than a peck of oats, or that a peck 

 of carrots and a peck of oats are equal to half a bushel of oats." 



The Germantown Telegraph says, that " Carrots not only 

 possess fattening properties equal to oats, taking bushel for 

 bushel, but it secures to the horse, in winter, fine health, a 

 loose skin and a glossy coat of hair, which it is impossible to 

 produce except by the use of the carrot." 



John W. Lincoln, of Worcester, states from his own expe- 

 rience, of several years, that the use of carrots for cattle or 

 swine is not less beneficial than for horses. 



If the above opinions are correct it is obvious that an acre 

 of carrots will produce a far greater amount of feed than an 

 acre of oats, for on the same quantity of land that produces 40 

 bushels of oats from 500 to 1,000 of carrots may be grown. 



The crop of onions, although very superior, did not cover 

 sufficient land to comply with the rules of the society. 



Samuel Nash, Chairmcm. 



James Cowles's Statement. 



I raised 75 bushels of Peach blow potatoes, the past season, 

 on 45 rods of dark, loamy soil, on which I spread and ploughed 



