502 PLYMOUTH SOCIETY. 



EXPENSE. 



Ploughing, subsoiling, harrowing, raking, and sowing, $2 50 

 Hoeing and thinning, . . . . . . . 10 00 



Harvesting, 7 00 



$19 50 

 The tops given to my cattle, were worth as much as the 

 compost put on. 



Jonathan Copelandfs Statement. 



The quarter of an acre entered by me for premium on car- 

 rots, was the same that I had carrots on last year. The mid- 

 dle of April we put on ten cart-loads of manure, and ploughed 

 it in nine inches deep. The 20th of May, ploughed the ground 

 again, harrowed and brushed it, and commenced sowing by 

 hand, in drills, eighteen inches apart; seed, orange variety. It 

 took two men one day to sow them, and six days' work to 

 weed and thin them out. My carrots are about as large at the 

 top as they were last year, but not so long and heavy. I think 

 the ground wants stirring with a subsoil plough. 



Ahiel Bassetfs Statement, 



ONIONS AND WINTER SQUASHES. 



The quarter of an acre of land I entered for premium on 

 onions, is a light mould ; it was in onions last year. The 16th 

 of April I put on ten cart-loads of stable manure, which was 

 spread and well ploughed in ; the 21st I spread on forty bushels 

 of dry ashes, and sowed the seed with a machine. I raised 

 my own seed the year previous. The hoeing and weeding 

 were done by odd jobs, which I estimated at about six days' 

 work. October the 5th the land was surveyed, and the onions 

 measured on one square rod, which produced 4^ bushels, which 

 would be 680 bushels to the acre. The certificate of the sur- 

 veyor, I enclose in this communication. 



Bridgeavater, Oct. 5, J852. 

 I hereby certify that I have this day measured, for Deacon 

 Abiel Bassett, one-fourth of an acre of ground, on which he 

 has raised onions the present season, and selected one square 



