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manured. It had lain fallow the year previousj and, in the 

 spring of 1847, such compost as I had to spare, with three loads 

 of night soil, was spread and ploughed under. The product 

 upon the piece of land planted (about one third of an acre) of 

 carrots was 175 bushels, by measure. 



In the spring of the present year, the land was ploughed, by 

 horse, the depth of the plough beam ; the manure, compost from 

 stable manure, loam, and leached ashes, spread upon the land, 

 ploughed under as deep as the horse-plough could carry it — har- 

 rowed and sowed. The machine, having never before been 

 used, worked irregularly, and the distance between the drills 

 was too great. There was no thinning of the crop — not even 

 one plant having been designedly pulled till harvesting. 



$29 10 



From this amount, should be deducted $7 71, for the reason 

 that the whole amount of land sowed to carrots was 62 rods, 

 while the amount, from which the above was derived, was 43 

 rods and three fourths. 



So that the proper amount of expense chargeable to the piece 

 actually measured, would be $24 67, leaving a credit to be car- 

 ried to the account of field, of 



