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HAMPSHIRE SOCIETY. 



N. and B. Smiili's Statement. 



Our crop of carrots was raised on a quarter of an acre of land 

 upon which broomcorn has been raised for ten or twelve years 

 past. About the 1st of May, five or six loads of stable and 

 yard manure were ploughed in. The land was then subsoiled, 

 and fruit trees were set upon it eighteen by twenty feet apart. 

 About the 1st of June, the piece was cultivated, harrowed, 

 raked and sowed, with Willis's patent seed sower. The crop 

 was harvested about the middle of November, measuring 194 

 bushels, weighing 48|^ lbs. per bushel. 



Value of crop at 33c. per bushel, .... $64 02 



Lease of land, 



Manure, .... 



Ploughing and subsoiling, 



Sowing and seedy 



Preparing ground for sowing. 



Hoeing and weeding. 



Transplanting, 



Harvesting, 



26 37 



Net gain, 

 Sunderland, Nov., 1852. 



$37 65 



Butter. 



As a business of profit, butter making is one of the most 

 lucrative that farmers in this section of country can engage in. 

 Butter not only commands a high price in proportion to the 

 actual cost of making, but always finds a rfeady market. . Un- 

 like most kinds of produce, that have a regular market season, 

 and must be carried to a distance often to reach a market, this 

 finds a ready sale at our own doors, at all seasons of the year. 

 Many individuals of limited means, who own little, if any 

 land, cannot conveniently keep cows, and are obliged to buy 

 both butter and milk, for their tables. There are a class of 

 such persons in every town, who buy and pay cash for their 



