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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Ploughing land twice, 



8 cords manure, . 



Hauling and spreading do.. 



Plaster and super-phosphate, 



Dropping same, . 



10 potatoes bushels, early whites, 



12 bushels stone hills. 



Planting, .... 



Hoeing, twice, . 



Digging and marketing, 



I bushel corn and planting. 



Hoeing corn twice. 



Ploughing and cultivating. 



Cutting and stacking, . 



Husking, (100 bushels, at 4 cents,) 



1 pound turnip seed and sowing, 



Pulling and topping turnips. 



Interest and taxes, 



Profit, .... 

 West Springfield, November, 1860. 



PLYMOUTH. 



Statement of Charles G. Davis. 



Carrots. — My crop of carrots entered for premium I have 

 just stored, and on a quarter of an acre I have raised seven 

 thousand seven hundred and forty-eight pounds, (7,748,) 

 making at fifty-five pounds per bushel, one hundred and forty 

 bushels and forty-eight fifty-fifths fraction over, or at the rate 

 of five hundred and sixty-three bushels per acre. This, I am 

 aware, is less than the amount requisite for a premium. The 

 carrots were of the long orange variety, sown upon drained 

 land, ujK)n a declivity, which was ploughed from the sod two 

 years ago last December, and has been in corn the two summers 

 since. The land is peaty, with a clayish subsoil, but was 

 ploughed last year and this as much as fourteen inches deep. 

 It was dry enough for corn, but the past summer has been so 

 wet, that the carrots were not very long, though very large in 

 circumference. 



