CHOPS 



51 



Value of Crop. 

 ■201 bushels, at 40 cents, .... 



Expenses. 

 Compost, $10 ; guano, $1.50, 

 Plowing and harrowing, $1, 

 Seed and sowing, $1.75 ; hoeing, $6, . 

 Harvesting, $8 ; interest, $3, . 



Net profit, 

 Hadley, Nov. 14, 1855. 



$11 50 



1 00 



7 75 



11 00 



$80 40 



$31 25 



$49 15 



Statement of O. df F. H. Williams. 



Our carrots were raised on a half-acre of light, loamy soil, which was in 

 grass in 1852 and 1853. It was manured in 1854 with compost, made from 

 the stable, and sowed to carrots. ' Last May, we plowed nine inches deep 

 with a Double Plow, planted with a Seed Sower, in rows two feet apart, and 

 used a very light steel plow between the rows. 



Value of Crop. 



288 bushels, at 30 cents. 



Expenses. 



Compost, $12 ; carting, $2, 

 Plowing, $2 ; seed, 40 cents. 

 Sowing, $1 ; hoeing, $4, 

 Thinning and weeding, $6.50, 

 .Harvesting, $6 ; interest and taxes, $4, 



Net profit, 

 Sunderland, Nov. 17, 1855. 



$86 40 



$14 00 

 2 40 



5 00 



6 50 

 10 00 



$37 90 

 $48 50 



TURBTIPS. 



Statement of Levi P. Warner. 



My turnips were grown on 57^ rods of land, which, in 1854, was planted 

 to corn, and sown to clover, at the last hoeing. In 1855, after taking oflf 

 the hay crop, I plowed, harrowed and sowed 6 ounces of seed broadcast, 

 applying a dressing of 100 lbs. of superphosphate of lime ; and added 7 

 bushels of ashes when the plants were up. 



Value of Crop. 



256 bushels, or 6 tons and 800 lbs. at $6 per ton, . . . $38 40 



Expenses. 



Plowing, harrowing and sowing, $1 ; seed 20 cts. ; lime $2.87, 4,07 

 Ashes 87 cts.; thinning 50 cts.; harvesting $3 50; interest 68c., 5,55 



Net profit, 

 Sdnderland, Nov. 17, 1855. 



9 62 



$28 78 



