92 ON BOOT CROPS. 



Crop sold for - - - - $144 25 



From which deduct cost of production, - - 64 00 



Net profit. $80 25 



Byfield. Nov. 12th, 1852. JOHN L. HUBBARD. 



Newbury, Nov. 12th, 1852. — This is to certify that we, the 



subscribers, have measured a lot of Onions for Mr. Hubbard, 



of three hundred and thirty bushels. 



ADAMS PHALEN. 



JOHN S. HILL. 



RICHARD P. WATERS'S STATEMENT. 



The crop of carrots which I entered for examination, have 

 now been harvested, and the result is as follows. From one 

 hundred square poles of land I have taken 555 baskets of 

 orange carrots, weighing, on an average, 56 lbs. per basket, 

 amounting to thirty one thousand and eighty pounds of car- 

 rots or at the rate of twenty five tons per acre. 



The mode of cultivation was as follows. We manured the 

 land with eighteen ox-cart loads of barn yard manure, two 

 thirds of which was swamp muck, and one third pure stable 

 manure composted. This manure v/as spread and the land 

 ploughed twelve inches deep about the 20th of May. It was 

 then raked with common hand rakes and the seed sown on 

 ithe 28th of May, the rows eighteen inches apart — with one 

 pound of orange carrot seed. The piece was hoed once and 

 weeded by hand twice. The carrots were harvested on the 

 first week of November^ and the crop resulted as above stated. 

 Perhaps it ought to be stated that I took a carrot crop from 

 the same piece of land last year, and for which I received a 

 premium. I shall continue the same crop on the same land 

 another year. The soil is composed of dark and yellow loam, 

 and was fenced off from an old pasture three years since. 



EXPENSES OF CULTIVATION. 



Interest on land, - - - - $5 00 



Six cords compost, - - - - - 36 00 



