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Hammond and Wheeler. The land of Mr. Hammond was a 

 strong deep soil ; it was ploughed with a common plough ; the 

 crop was quite uneven, several trees being within the field, and 

 the shade had had its influence on the growth of the root. Pre- 

 vious to the harvest being concluded, a portion of the ground 

 was measured, which was selected as having on it the most 

 abundant crop, and yielded at the rate of 883 1-2 measured 

 bushels to the acre. The land of Mr. Lincoln bearing his car- 

 rot crop, had been subsoiled and cultivated as stated in the cer- 

 tificate of the owner ; the 1-4 acre was taken from the best part 

 of the field. Mr. Wheeler's land, on which the carrots were 

 grown, was a light gravel soil, and the crop had evidently been 

 injured by the severe drought of the season, and, as will appear 

 from his statement, the crop was unequal over different parts of 

 the field. He thinks, that in a common season, his crop would 

 have exceeded 1000 bushels per acre. His course is believed to 

 be unusual, to grow carrots on the same ground for three con- 

 secutive years, and his statement was requested, to show the 

 progressive improvement of the land under this mode of culti- 

 vation. The thanks of the public should be accorded him for 

 the information his statement affords ; and it gives evidence that 

 he has received the reward promised to the intelligent husband- 

 man. The field was uncommonly clean from weeds, more so 

 than is usually witnessed in a garden, and this in ground which 

 was, within the recollection of some of the committee, a few 

 years since, filled with the roots of the couch or quitch grass. 



Two of the members of the committee then proceeded to view 

 the land of George Denny, Esq., whose tenant, Mr. Fairbanks, 

 had entered as a competitor for the premium for carrots. The 

 land on which the carrots were grown, was, before his purchase, 

 and this quite recently, a very wet meadow, yielding a growth 

 of very little value. As food for neat stock, if the herbage was 

 not so coarse as to require splitting as well as cutting, before it 

 could be consumed, it is believed to have been more useful as a 

 means of making manure than as food for cattle. It now prom- 

 ises to give abundant crops of the best of grass. The soil ap- 

 peared to lay up very light ; perhaps it had not become suffi- 

 ciently consolidated to resist a drought. Should this be the 



