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ing in all their different positions in the several rows, some were 

 one and some twelve inches apart. The carrots entered by 

 Mr. Dodge were on half an acre of land on which corn grew 

 the year before. The land was ploughed ten inches deep, one 

 part manured with green manure, at the rate of forty common 

 cartloads to the acre, and the other part with leached ashes, 

 at the rate of three hundred bushels per acre. That part ma- 

 nured with the ashes produced the largest crop. The rows 

 were from sixteen to eighteen inches apart, and the carrots in 

 the rows standing, generally, at a distance from each other of 

 from one to four inches, and in many places in bunches, crowding 

 each other for their rights — probably belonging to different 

 political parties. The length of the carrots was from six to 

 nine inches. Mr. Dodge cultivates his land between the rows 

 with a cultivator drawn by a horse trained to the work, so as 

 seldom if ever to step on the rows. He lets out the weeding 

 of the carrots to boys by the job, at so much per acre. His 

 half acre of carrots weighed twenty-one thousand two hundred 

 and seventy-five pounds, grown at a cost of fifty dollars and 

 fifty-four cents, and sold on the lot for one hundred and six 

 dollars and thirty-seven and a half cents, leaving a balance 

 for profit of fifty-five dollars and eighty-three cents. 

 For a more particular description, we refer to the 



Statement of Harvey Dodge. 



The land on which my crop of carrots was grown the present 

 year is composed of a light loam to the depth of twenty inches, 

 resting on a gravel substratum, entirely unlike the most of my 

 other soils, which, as I have often stated, rest mostly on clayey 

 subsoil, and arc more retentive of moisture. This lot has 

 always been productive when in grass, grain, or potatoes, but 

 had never been worked deep enough to give what would be 

 termed large crops of any kind. This lot was ploughed in 

 1846, manured with forty ox-cart loads of stable manure, and 

 planted to corn; in 1847 it was sown with oats and grass seed, 

 and was kept in grass, yielding about two tons to the acre, 

 until 1851 ; in 1852 the grass did not yield more than one ton 

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