•ROOT CROPS. 



210 



Value of crop : — 

 150 bushels, at 50 cents, 



Expenses : — 



Seed, .... 



Ploughing and harrowing, 



Manure, 



Spreading and harrowing, 



Planting and hoeing, . 



Digging and carting, 



Net profit, 



Amheest, November 14, 1854. 



$75 00 



$41 00 



HAMPDEN. 



Statement of J. H. Demond. 



Carrots. — I herewith furnish you my account current with 

 the crop of carrots raised by me on eighty rods of ground the 

 present season. The soil appropriated to this crop is a sandy 

 alluvial, a portion of which was covered with corn sown in 

 drills, and used while in a growing state as extra feed for my 

 cows the previous season ; the remainder was mowing turf. In 

 preparing for the present crop I used fifteen loads of compost 

 manure, thirty bushels to the load. This was evenly spread, and 

 on the ploughed part was turned under twelve inches deep, but 

 on a portion of the turf land it was covered ten inches, and on 

 the remainder the manure was harrowed in upon the reversed 

 sod. After being well harrowed, long orange carrot seed was 

 sown, in drills eighteen inches distant, about the middle of May. 

 The growing crop required very little labor in the cultivation. 

 It was hoed but twice during its growth, and was uncommonly 

 free from weeds." In harvesting, a one-horse plough was passed 

 as near the rows as possible, removing the earth from the car- 

 rots. By this process the labor of lifting them was greatly facili- 

 tated and rendered much easier; and they were all gathered 



