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spring and then planted to carrots. This spring it was liber- 

 ally manured with a compost of muck, night soil, sea manure 

 and barn manure, at about the rate of eight cords to the acre ; 

 it was ploughed about eight inches deep, and very thoroughly 

 worked. About the middle of June it was planted to the 

 Improved Long Orange carrot, the short top variety, in rows 

 fifteen inches apart, seed being dropped at the rate of one pound 

 to the acre. The season being unpropitious, the plants aver- 

 aged thinner than was desirable. After the carrots were three 

 or four inches high, they were thinned where too thick, to 

 three inches apart, with the exception of a small portion of the 

 bed, which was overlooked. All after cultivation, was by 

 finger weeding and the slide hoe. The yield was five hundred 

 and twenty-three bushels from ninety-five rods of land, or at 

 the rate of twenty-two tons to the acre. 



STATEMENT OF J. L. NEWHALL. 



Statement of a crop of Mangle Wurtzels raised by J. L. 

 Newhall, of Newburyport, 1869. 



The crop of 186T was grass without manure, the crop of 

 1868 was grass without manure, on half the piece, the remain- 

 der was in cabbages with manure, at the rate of four cords per 

 acre, and a hand full of ashes to each hill. The land was 

 ploughed in the fall of 1868, and again in the spring of 1869. 

 At the last ploughing, about eight cords of manure was plough- 

 ed in ; the land was then harrowed and turned into ridges 

 three feet apart, with the plow, and the seed sowed on the top 

 of ridges, four pounds of seed required for this piece. Cost of 

 seed, $4,80 ; planting, $2 ; cost of ploughing, $5 ; other prep- 

 aration, $5 ; value of manure on the land, $64. 



The piece was cultivated with a horse cultivator three times, 

 and the weeds pulled from the rows. Cost of cultivating and 

 weeding, $20. The crop was gathered about the middle of 

 October, the roots were stripped of leaves and thrown into 



