150 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



One acre com, yield 45 bushels ; 2,520 lbs. at 1.] cts., $37 80 

 Labor, $15.30 ; manure, 88, . . . $23 30 



Marketing, 1 00 



Total, 24 30 



Profit on one acre, ..... -$13 50 



One acre carrots, 12.] tons ; value in cities, 812 per ton, 8150 00 

 Cost of labor, 841.70 ; marketing, 812.50, . 854 20 

 Extra manure used up by the crop, . . IG 00 

 Allow for fluctuation in demand and price, 



83 per ton, . . . . . . 37 50 



107 70 



Profit on one acre, ..... 842 30 



One acre mangold wurtzel, 25 tons ; marketing at 85, . 8125 00 

 Cost, calculated as above, 8o3.50 ; marketing, 825, . 88 50 



Profit on one acre, ..... 836 50 



From the closest calculation and observation which it is 

 prudent to make, it is evident that the farmer who lives remote 

 from market, and who must convert the product of the dairy 

 into butter and cheese, cannot alford to raise mangolds or carrots 

 extensively. 



In the vicinity of towns where milk can be sold without much 

 labor, where hay finds a ready market at 815 per ton, and au 

 equivalent in corn can be raised (including a charge for the 

 manure) for 811^^0, and an equivalent in mangold wurtzels can 

 be raised (including the charge for manure) for 8II3VV' ^*' ^^ 

 economy to feed sparingly of hay, (substitute oat straw cut 

 while the grain is in the milk,) sell the surplus hay of the 

 farm, and crowd the corn and root culture. 



For ini[)()rtant information upon the subject of this report, 

 we refer the reader to United States' Reports on Agriculture, 

 vol. 1849-50, pp. 231, 2G6 ; vol. 1851, pp. G2, G5, 66, 154 ; vol. 

 1854, pp. 92, 423 ; vol. 1855, pp. 155, 262 ; vol. 1856, pp. 8, 

 455, 492; vol. 1857; vol. 1858, pp. 45, 109; vol. 1859, pp. 

 103, 114, 136, 372, 373, 446, 449, 452 ; Ellsworth's Americau 

 Swine Breeder ; Waring, Elements of Agriculture ; Milch Cows 



