46 TRANSACTIONS. 



O. (^ F. H, Williams Statement. 

 The ground on which were raised our potatoes, has been in grass, as a pas- 

 ture, for three or four years. The soil is light and sandy, on a side hill, 

 lying toward the south west. April 24th, we ploughed from three to six 

 inches deep. The furrows were turned and filled with manure, after the po- 

 tatoes were dropped, together with a handful of plaster and salt. These 

 were turned back, covering all about 4 inches deep, and saved at least one 

 half, if not thre'e fourths the labor of planting with the hoe. Our seed wag 

 the genuine peach blow. We hill with all the dirt we can, and imitate in 

 this respect the Irish mode of tillage, which we consider preferable to flat 

 tillage. We used small potatoes, put one into each hill, and where they 

 were large, cut them and used at the rate of 8 or 9 bushels at the acre. 



Value of Crop. 

 123 bushels at 50 cents, $61 50 



Eocfcnses. 

 Plowing and harrowing $2, manure $8, manuring, farrow- 

 ing and covering, $2,80, .... $12 80 

 Seed $1,20, hoeing $3,50, weeding $1,25, harvesting $8, 



interest and taxes $2, 15 95 



$28 75 



Net profit, ■ . $32 75 



Sunderland, Not. 15, 1856. 



€ AEKOTS, 



David Hubbard's Statement. 



Tlie land on which my carrots were raised, is a sandy, gravelly loam, 



which has produced corn the past two years, measures sixty-six rods, and i« 



in a fair state of cultivation. I ploughed in May, 1856, and subsoiled about 



fifteen inches deep. I put on twenty loads of compost maaure, ploughed in 



ten loads, harrowed in the other ten, and raked thorouglily. I planted 



about the last of May v.'ith one of Ruggle^, Nourse & Mason's seed-sowers, 



about one third of a pound of pure orange carrot seed, in rows eighteen 



jnches apart. At the third hoeing, I thinned them, leaving them from three 



to five inches apart, and filled in with Sweedish turnips where the carrots 



were missing. 



Value of Crap. 



Ti2 8-11 bushels, 55 pounds per bushel, at 33 cents, . . $90 00 



Eaypenses. 

 Manure $15. ploughing and harrowing $2, seed and 



sowing $1, . . . _. . . . $18 00 • 

 Carting and spading manure $2, hoeing $8, harvesting 



$7, interest $2,50, 19 50 



$37 50 



Net profit $52 50 



Sunderland, Nov. 15, 1856. 



