80 

 CARROTS. 



F. H. WILLIAMS' STATEMENT. 



The piece of ground on which I raised my carrots the 

 past season, contains eighty-seven and three-fourths rods, 

 from which we took four and three-fourths tons. These 

 were sold and delivered at fifteen dollars per ton. The soil 

 is a sandy or river loam. Part of the ground was an old sod 

 which had been mowed several years, and part produced 

 corn in 1859. Was not in a high state of cultivation in 

 the spring of 1860. I plowed eight inches deep and har- 

 rowed in the compost, sowed the fore part of May, in 

 drills eighteen inches apart. Hoed four times and thinned 

 to three inches apart in drills. Sowed the improved or- 

 ange carrot seed, at the rate of two pounds to the acre. 



EXPENSES. 



Eight ox-cart loads compost, - - $8 00 



Cultivation and harvesting, - - 20 00 



Seed, - - - - - - 1 50 



$29 50 



Four and three-fourths tons carrots at $12 00 



a ton on the ground, - - 57 00 



Profit $27 50 



