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The whole measure of carrot ground is one-half acre. 

 Piece No, 1, (one-fourth acre) was manured with fifty bushels 

 of ashes, and one cord of compost composed of woolen waste 

 and salt ley. Piece No. 2, in addition to the cord of com- 

 post, received a dressing of IGO lbs. of improved super phos- 

 phate of lime, at the cost of $4,00. Expense of cultivation 

 $18,00. The carrots were sown on 1st day of June, and the 

 Conmiittee are of the opinion that the loss from being dug 

 so early was ten per cent. The application of super phos- 

 phate of lime on the one-fourth of an acre, was considered 

 an experiment by Dr. Fisher, and the result shows a differ- 

 ence in its favor of 14 3-8 lbs. to the square rod ; 287 1-2 lbs. 

 to the one-eighth acre, and 2300 lbs. or 41 9-11 bushels to 

 the acre. The carrots were sown thick and not thinned at 

 all at weeding, and did not appear to have suffered from the 

 drought, which was not the case with the other pieces 

 visited. The soil is a sandy loam, resting on a sub-soil of a 

 clayey nature. It was plowed ten inches deep. 



Submitting the above facts, your Committee would inquire, 

 does the cultivation of roots receive that attention which its 

 importance demands'? We believe that every one, who 

 knows the value of good roots for stock, will answer in the 

 negative. This being true, would it not be well for every 

 farmer to look about him, and not let another seed-time 

 pass without attending to this important branch of husbandry? 

 Says the late Judge Buel : " This is the culture that has 

 done more for agriculture and stock raising, than any thing 

 else in England, and is second only to steam in its results in 

 both Scotland and England." It maybe urged that the root 

 culture needs an additional outlay of expense which to the 

 farmer of small means is not practicable. To this we do not 

 assent, for the reason that experience contradicts it. Call, as 

 a moderate estimate eighteen tons to the acre ; these at $ 12,00 

 per ton amounts to :j>i2I6.00; deduct $75,00 for fitting the 

 land, and this gives $141,00 profit for a single acre at low 

 estimates, besides leaving the soil in fine order for any crop 



