ROOT CROPS. 185 



A violent rain in May scattered the seeds wliich were planted 

 in drills, and I had little hope of the crop when you saw it 

 during the summer. The spaces I planted with Swedish turnips, 

 and again with the yellow stone round turnips ; and now after 

 the crop is removed, the field is green with the turnips. The 

 yield of the turnips will be such as to render the whole crop a 

 profitable and a very heavy one. I put the stable compost 

 manure in open drills, which were covered with the plough, and 

 have hoed three times. A sandy loam is often recommended 

 for carrots, and yet it is often stated that they do well in a 

 drained peat. There seems to be some confusion or inconsist- 

 ency about this, as one would think that which would do best 

 in one soil would not do as well upon the other. 



Dr. 

 Ploughing, ........ 



One cord of manure, ...... 



Furrowing, manuring, and planting, 



Hoeing, three times, and weeding — 1st time, $1.50 ; 



2d and 3d, §1 each, 



Harvesting, ........ 



Interest and taxes, ....... 



Cr. 



By two and a quarter tons of carrots, at 810.50, 



$6 77 

 I have since cropped 2,200 pounds of round turnips on the 

 lot above named. 



Statement of Albert Thomas. 



Carrots. — The land where I raised my carrots measured 

 forty rods. I ploughed in three cords of manure, harrowed 

 the grounds, and sowed the carrots the 2d day of June, in 

 rows two feet apart ; raised one hundred and seventy-four 

 bushels, weighing 0,570 pounds, or at the rate of six hundred 

 and ninety-six bushels per acre. Hoed them twice. 



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