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one ton of corn meal cost $12.24. Raised one-half acre 

 carrots. Product, 345 bushels ; cost for labor, six cents per 

 bushel ; allow 500 bushels as the product of an acre on tlie 

 average, (from the change of seasons) ; labor would be 8^Vo 

 cents per bushel, or (40 bushels to the ton) $3.34 per ton. 



Cost of labor on a premium crop of Mangold "Wurtzels, raised 

 by William Birnie of Hampden County. Yield of 2-^ acres, 95 

 tons ; labor, $120.50 ; same cost of labor on the average crop, 

 25 tons, $1.93 per ton. 



Taking hay as the basis of calculation in feeding, hay costing 

 for labor stored in the barn, $3 per ton. Cost for labor of an 

 equivalent in corn meal, 1,100 pounds, (being the average by 

 the actual experiments made in feeding, see tables annexed.) 



Proportion of labor to be charged to same, . . $6 71 



Cliarge the crop with two cords of manure to the acre 

 over that buried in the soil of the grass-land, pro- 

 portion at four dollars per cord, would be, . . 4 40 



$11 11 



Carrots, 5,660 pounds (by experiments reported in tables 

 annexed, equal to one ton of hay) at $3.34 per ton ; add for 

 extra manure, four cords, $16 per acre. Carrots, (500 bushels,) 

 121 tons to acre, $1.21 per ton, making $4.55. 5,660 pounds, 

 at $4.55 per ton, $12.86. 



Mangold wurtzel, calculated in the same manner, 7,920 pounds 

 equal to one ton hay. Labor, $1.93 per ton ; manure, same 

 allowance as for carrots, per acre, 61 cts. per ton, making $2.54 

 per ton. 7,920 pounds, at $2.54 per ton, $10.06. 



Comparative profit of the same crop for market, allowing the 

 value and condition of the land cultivated to be naturally the 

 same. 



One acre in hay, yield two tons ; take the market value 



near cities, fifteen dollars per ton, .... $30 00 

 Value of labor in securing and marketing same, . 8 00 



Profit on one acre, ..... $22 00 



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