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To Amos Wellington, of Ashby, for the greatest quantity of car- 

 rots on ^ of an acre, 1st premium, $6 



Joel Hayward^s Statement. 



I have raised this season, on one acre of ground, ninety bush- 

 els and seventeen quarts of shelled com. The ground on which 

 I raised the corn was planted with potatoes last season, and was 

 formerly an old pasture that was never ploughed until the sum- 

 mer of 1844. I put on, this season, 35 loads of manure ; one 

 half I spread and ploughed in nine inches deep, the remainder I 

 put in the hill, and furrowed but one way three feet apart ; the 

 other way I planted two feet apart. I left to grow five stalks in 

 the hill ; I hoed three times. The corn was the small Canada 

 corn. 



Ashhy, Dec. 29/A, 1846. 



Amos Wellington's Statement. 



I have raised forty hundred and fifty-six pounds of carrots on 

 20 rods of ground, the past season. The land is deep soil, and 

 was prepared in the following manner : The ground was ploughed 

 very deep early in the spring, and four loads of compost manure 

 were spread and harrowed in. About the middle of May, the 

 ground was ploughed again deep as before. On the 20th, the 

 seed was sowed with a machine in rows, one foot apart, and the 

 carrots left from 3 to 5 inches the other way. 



Ashhy, Dec. 29th, 1846. 



