72 ON ROOT CROPS. 



The Committee respectliilly submit the Report; and 

 from their experience and the statements of others, 

 think roots the most profitable crops, and at the same 

 time the most healthful that can be raised for our stock. 

 ERASTUS WARE, ) 

 WM. OSBORN, [ Committee. 

 JOSIAH CROSBY, ) 



ANDREWS BREADS STATEMENT. 



To the Committee on Root Culture : 



Gentleaien — I offer for premium a crop of carrots, 

 raised from one acre eighty-seven rods of land, meas- 

 uring eight hundred and two bushels. The land was a 

 thin, dark loam, with a light gravel sub-soil. A crop of 

 corn and potatoes was taken from the land last season; 

 the crop was light, say about forty bushels corn and 

 sixty bushels potatoes. It had in the spring of 1841, a 

 dressing of manure, which was ploughed in, after the 

 crop was harvested. On the 10th day of November it 

 had five cords compost manure put on, spread and 

 ploughed in deep, say to the depth of the beam of the 

 plough. On the 1st and 4th day of May, of the present 

 year, it had five and a quarter cords of barn manure 

 and meadow mud spread and ploughed in as before. At 

 the time it was ploughed a man followed the team with 

 a rake and raked it. On the 6th day of May it was sowed 

 in rows running north and south, sixteen inches apart, 

 with one pound orange and one pound white carrot seed; 

 the white carrot seed was poor, and did not but very 

 little of it vegetate. I was obliged to sow that part 

 where the white seed was sown, again on the 1st day of 

 June, with one pound of orange carrot seed. 



In July, the carrots were weeded and thinned out, 

 leaving them from four to six inches apart. The half of 

 the land sowed the second time did not yield so large a 

 crop as the part sowed in May. 



They were harvested the last week in October; a 



