ROUT CROPS. 



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Value of the crop : — 



Carrots, at thirty-seven and a half cents per 



bushel, . . . . . . $159 38 



Tops, . . . . " . . . 4 00 



-$163 38 



Net profit, 



$106 13 



FRANKLIN. 



Statement of Elihu Smith. 



Carrots. — The piece of ground upon which my carrots were 

 grown lies with a gentle slope towards the east of from two 

 to four degrees. It had been down to grass for several years 

 previous to 1853, with occasionally a top-dressing of manure, 

 when it was ploughed, turning under at the rate of twenty loads 

 of manure to the acre, and then planted with corn. The worms 

 destroyed much of this crop, so that the yield was no more 

 than an average one. In the spring of 1854 manure was again 

 ploughed under, at about the same rate as last year, and in 

 some of the last days of May it was sown to carrots. 



Used one of Ruggles, Nourse & Mason's seed sowers ; left the 

 rows from one-half to two feet apart, and the carrots in the 

 rows within from three to four inches of each other. By meas- 

 urement the piece contained twenty rods, or one-eighth of an 

 acre. On harvesting, (allowing fifty pounds for a bushel,) the 

 yield was one hundred and thirty bushels, making at the rate 

 of one thousand and forty bushels per acre. 



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