ROOT CROPS. 



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The following is the result of this year : — 



I spread on eleven loads of barn-yard manure, bushed with 

 heavy Lush, ploughed deeply, then harrowed and bushed thor- 

 oughly. I raked it over, and sowed the seed on the 1st of 

 June ; weeded the latter part of June, and again the latter part 

 of July. I pulled out the weeds in August and September; 

 commenced harvesting November 4, and finished November 9. 



Expenses : — 

 Eleven loads of manure, . 

 Drawing and spreading the same, 

 Ploughing, harrowing, and bushing, . 

 Raking and sowing, .... 

 Hoeing and weeding in June, . 

 Weeding again in July, 

 Pulling weeds August and September, 

 Harvesting half acre — 10 days' work, at $1.25 per 

 day, 



Value of tlie crop : — 



Ten loads of carrots, sold for ten dollars per ton, 

 weighing twenty-one thousand three hundred and 

 ninety-seven pounds, or ten tons thirteen hun- 

 dred weight and ninety-seven pounds, 



12 50 



$45 00 



106 98 



The chairman of the committee having visited several fields 

 of carrots not offered for premium, within a few weeks, hopes 

 to be indulged a few moments in giving the conclusions arrived 

 at from the facts in the case, although he may differ from many 

 farmers in these enlightened days of agriculture. The several 

 fields visited were found to be ploughed or dug up from six to 

 twenty-four inches deep. Some carrots were found growing- 

 very thick and some very thin in their rows, but all rows about 

 the same distance from each other. Some were manured with 

 green manure and some with compost, but all were cultivated 

 or taken care of in about the same way. In most cases the 

 shortest carrots were found on land ploughed the deepest, 



