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ROOT CROPS 



Product, as estimated by the Committee, October 24, 

 290 lbs. 14 oz. to the square rod. 



I consider the Horn carrot better and more productive 

 than the Orange. 



ISAAC B. WOODWARD'S STATEMENT. 



CARROTS. 



The lot on which my carrots grew, contains 25 2-3 

 rods, is a heavy loam soil, upon a clayey sub-soil. The 

 crop of 1857 was southern corn, with seven loads loam 

 that had been put under the cow stable; that of 1858 

 was carrots, with two cords green manure. It was 

 plowed the first and last of May, six and ten inches 

 deep ; manured with eight loads, spread before plowing; 

 raked, sowed, June 4th, with one-half pound orange 

 carrot seed ; hoed three times by hand and once with a 

 wheel hoe, and harvested the latter part of October. 



Cost of plowing, &c., - . - . $2,00 



Manure, ----- 10,00 



Seed and sowing, - - - - ,50 



Cultivation, - - - . 4^00 



Total, - - - - $16,50 



The tops paid for harvesting. 



Produce, as estimated by the Committee, November 1, 

 318! lbs. per square rod. 



W. a. WYMAN'S STATEMENT. 



SWEEDISH TURNIPS. 



The eighth-acre which produced my ruta-bagas is a 

 gravelly loam upon a loose sub-soil. The crop of 1857 

 was corn and turnips, with three-fourths cord compost ; 



