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in July, at which time the rows were hardly visible, and I was 

 advised to plough them in and sow buckwheat. Nothing more 

 was done to them till harvesting, when the quarter of an acre 

 selected as the best on the field yielded 177£ bushels. The car- 

 rots were not thinned out as generally recommended, for the 

 reasons that the process of thinning has been found about as 

 tedious and expensive as weeding, and, also, because small car- 

 rots are more conveniently eaten by cattle, and the increased 

 size, where they are thinned, does not compensate for the di- 

 minished number. 



The soil is a deep yellow loam, resting probably on a ledge 

 of slate stone, at a depth varying from 10 to 20 feet. Through- 

 out the season, the carrots growing on that portion of the field, 

 manured with stable manure, were better than those manured 

 with the offal from the slaughter-house. 



The following is the estimated cost of the crop : — 



Interest upon the value of the land, 



Seed and cost of sowing, .... 



Cost of manure, $17 50 — one half to the crop, 



Expense of drawing the same, 



Three times ploughing, .... 



Twice weeding, ...... 



Harvesting, ....... 



$28 75 



Value of the crop in the field, at $9 per ton, 177£ bushels, 

 $40 25. Leaving a profit of $11 50. 



It should be understood that I have selected the best part of 

 the field, and that the whole would not have presented so favor- 

 able a result. 



Worcester, Dec. 2£th, 1845. 



Statement of Orrin Fairbanks. 



The crop of carrots which I have entered for the Society's 

 premium, was grown on a piece of land measuring 68£ rods 

 The only crops taken from the ground, to my knowledge, were 



