ROOT CROPS. 



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of iiuderdrainiiig, and rendering it permanently dry, it was 

 drained with open ditches early in the spring, and about the 

 middle of May thoroughly ploughed with double plough, ten 

 inches deep, thoroughly dressed and furrowed three feet apart, 

 and composted manure spread in the furrows continuously, five 

 cords to the acre. The potatoes, two varieties, St. Helena's 

 and Davis seedlings, one-fourth acre of the latter and three- 

 fourths of an acre of the former, were cut and plaster-mixed 

 (an indefinite quantity) and planted one foot apart. Seeded 

 at the rate of ten or twelve bushels to the acre. The potatoes 

 were hoed twice, and weeds cut or pulled the third time ; 

 iinleachcd ashes were applied after the first hoeing. The yield 

 was two hundred and twenty-six baskets, measured equally in 

 two baskets, the one weighing, basket out, sixty-nine pounds, 

 the other sixty-two pounds, average sixty-five and one-half 

 pounds, making two hundred and forty-six and two-thirds bush- 

 els. The vield of the two varieties was about the same. 



By 246| bushels, at 50 cents. 

 To ploughing land, . 



interest, 



taxes, .... 



seed, .... 



planting, 



hoeing, 



digging, 



Xet profit, . 

 HoLTOKE October, 1860. 



$123 33 



$3 00 



$27 95 



^O 61 



Statement of Joseph A. Smith. 



Carrots. — The carrots that I offer for a premium were grown 

 on one-fourth of an acre of land from which the previous year 

 a crop of parsnips was raised. 



In preparing for the crop, the last week in April, the ground 

 was ploughed to the depth of ten inches. Upon the furrows 

 were spread two and a half cords of fine manure, and ploughed 



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