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John Brooks, Jr.'s Statement. 



The piece of land that I enter for a premium, on ruta- 

 lagas, contains one-eighth of an acre. Last year it 

 was cropped with carrots ; two loads of manure were 

 put upon it, and plowed in nine inches deep. This year 

 I put on two loads of manure, made of one-third meadow 

 muck, and two-thirds cow manure, and plowed it in nine 

 inches deep, ahout the middle of July. I then sowed 

 upon it twelve pounds of guano, and harrowed it in; 

 sowed with a machine, ahout fourteen inches apart, in 

 rows. 



6,10 

 Weight of roots, 5362 lbs.; value, at i ct. per lb., 26,81 

 950 lbs. tops, value, 1,50 



28,31 



Kett profit, $22,21 



