ON ROOT CROPS. 1 15 



RICHARD P. WATERS'S STATEMENT. 



1 oifer for premium a crop of carrots, raised on one Imndred 

 and twenty square poles of land. By careful measurement, 

 the product was four hundred and forty-two baskets — a basket 

 weight sixty-four lbs., and amounting to more than fourteen 

 tons, and making about nineteen tons to the acre. The soil 

 was a mixed dark and yellow loam, had been fenced off 

 from the pasture the year before and planted to squashes and 

 corn fodder, and received but a light dressing of manure. 



The present season we manured it with three cords of barn 

 yard manure, the scrapings of the yard after we had finished 

 our planting, and ploughed it in, the latter part of May. It 

 was sowed on the second of June, the rows eighteen inches 

 apart, with one pound of orange and one quarter pound of 

 horn carrot seed. I should think one sixth of the orange seed 

 failed to come up, and on these vacant spots we set out cab- 

 bages. The piece was hoed once and weeded twice by hand. 

 The carrots were harvested on the thirteenth and seventeenth 

 of November, by running a plough parallel with the rows, with- 

 in four to six inches of the carrots, and then we turned them 

 out with the spade. 



EXPENSES OF CULTIVATION. 



Interest on land _ - - - 



Three cords of manure - - - 



Spreading manure, ploughing, harrowing, raking and 



sowing _ - _ - - 



Seed * .... - 



Hoeing, weeding, and harvesting - - - 



$io6 75. 

 RICHARD P. WATERS. 



Cherry Hill Farm, Beverly, Nov. 1851. 



JOHN BRADSTREET'S STATEMENT. 

 As I have been requested to give a statement of my Potato 



