220 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



on the 1st of November, measuring four hundred bushels, and 

 weighing fifty pounds per bushel. 



Expenses : — 



Cultivating and harvesting, 

 One-half manure expended, 

 Interest on land, 



Value of the crop : — 

 400 bushels of carrots, at market price, 33 cents, 



Springfield, November 25, 1854. 



$18 00 

 8 00 

 6 00 



$32 00 



$132 00 



Statement of Sumner' Chapin. 



Carrots. — The lot on which the crop of carrots which I enter 

 for premium was grown contains eighty-four rods. I raised on 

 the same lot last year (1853) tobacco and cabbages, about one- 

 half devoted to each. It was well manured, and gave me a good 

 crop. About the first of May I ploughed the lot and put on 

 eight cords of manure, a part of which was spread on and 

 ploughed in, aud the remainder was spread in the drills before 

 sowing the seed. The amount of product was four hundred 

 and twenty-five bushels, and weighed twenty thousand eight 

 hundred and twenty-five pounds; and the amount of labor per- 

 formed, with cash expenditures and value of crop, was as fol- 

 lows : — 



Expenses : — 



Ploughing and preparing the g 



Sowing, 



Weeding aud harvesting, 



Cost of seed, 



Cost of manure, 



round, 



$57 25 



