ROOT CROPS 



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potatoes, cut, three pieces per hill, thirty hills per 

 square rod ; hoed once, and harvested October 5th. 



Cost of plowing, - - - - - $1,00 



Furrowing and applying ashes, - - • 1,00 

 Manure, ----- 10,00 



Aslies, - - - - - 1,00 



Seed, . . - . - 1,25 



Planting, ----- 1,50 



Hoeing, - - - - - 1,50 



Harvesting, - - - - 2,00 



Total, . - . - $19,25 



Produce, as estimated by the Committee, October 3, 

 98i lbs. per square rod; equal to 7880 lbs, or 131 1-3 

 bushels to the half-acre. 



JOHN BROOKS JE'S STATEMENT. 



CARROTS, 



The eighth-acre on which my carrots grew, is wet, 



with a clay sub-soil. The crop of 1857 was carrots, 



with 2 J loads manure, and 12 J lbs. superphosphate 



of lime ; that of 1858 was ruta-bagas, with 200 lbs. horn 



shavings. It was plowed once. May 28th, nine inches 



deep ; manured with two loads cow manure, spread 



before plowing, raked, and sowed, June 6th, in rows, 



with one-eighth pound horn carrot seed ; hoed twice, 



and harvested October 24th. 



Cost of plowing, ----- $0,25 



Raking, ----- ,25 



Manure, - - - - - 2,50 



Seed and sowing, - - - - ,25 



Cultivation, - - - - . 2,00 



Harvesting, - - - - 1,50 



Total, - - - - $6,75 



