ROOT CROPS. 225 



Value of crop, $30 00 



Whole expense, 10 50 



Net profit, $19 50 



Raynuam, 1854. 



Statement of Abiel Bassctt. 



Onions. — The quarter of an acre of land on which were 

 grown the onions entered by me for premium has been sown with 

 onions for a number of years. The last of April I carted on 

 ten loads of stable manure, and ploughed and hand-raked the 

 ground smooth. April 26 I sowed with a seed-sower, fourteen 

 inches between the rows. The seed came up and grew well 

 until the drought, which affected the crop very much. Yield 

 one hundred and fifty bushels. 



Statement of D. 6f R. Perkins. 



Carrots. — The quarter of an acre of land entered by us for 

 premium on carrots is a sandy loam. It was planted to pota- 

 toes last year. About the 10th of May we put on fifteen cart- 

 loads of compost manure, ploughed nine inches deep and hand- 

 raked it, and planted the orange variety with a seed-sower, in 

 rows eighteen inches apart. Owing to circumstances unfore- 

 seen when we entered for premium, we found it expedient to 

 plough it again and re-sow, which we did on the 15th of June, 

 the same as at first, thinning them out in the rows about four 

 inches apart. The plants suffered much from the drought the 

 first of the season, but are doing well now, (9th of October.) 

 and we think growing as fast as at any time. Had the visit 

 been a few weeks later, we think there would have been quite 

 a difference in the product of the rod selected and weighed. 



Expenses : — 



Ploughing, raking, and sowing, . . . . $1 75 

 Hoeing, weeding, and thinning out, . . . 10 00 



$11 75 



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