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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



ploughed under five loads of manure from the barnyard about 

 the first of May ; about the 15tli of May I sowed the carrots in 

 drills eighteen inches apart. I mixed cabbage and radish seed 

 with them so that I could more easily trace the rows, in case 

 the carrots did not come well ; but I found when hoeing time 

 came, that I needed nothing of the kind, for the carrots came 

 lip very thick and healthy. I hoed them three times ; at the 

 second hoeing I thinned them out, leaving them less than two 

 inches apart. They grew vigorously until the last of July, 

 when they began to blast, and in a week or ten days the 

 tops were almost dead ; so I supposed I should have nothing. 

 About the last of August they began to revive and grew very 

 well until I dug them about the first of November. The 

 amount of carrots, 8,268 pounds. I have some very fine 

 radishes — I should think a good cartload. There were more 

 than two hundred good cabbages. 



COST OF CROP. 



Manure, five loads, .... 

 Ploughing and harrowing, 

 Sowing and seed, .... 

 Hoeing, three times, .... 



Harvesting, 



Rent of land and taxes, . 



AMOUNT OF CROP. 



!,268 lbs. of carrots, at •S>14 per ton, 

 200 cabbages, 



Amount of crop above the cost. 



17 50 



$43 37 



HAMPDEN. 



Statement of Dr. Loiig-. 



Potatoes. — The acre of potatoes entered for premium has 



been in grass for twenty years or so, to my knowledge, and, for 



aught I know, has never been j)loughed, on account of surface 



water renderins; it too wet most of the season. With the design 



