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one of yard mannre and five of muck, and of this I have put on 

 the yVo acres probably 15 loads a year since I set out the trees, 

 some six or seven years since, the land being in good condition 

 when the trees were set out. During that time I have washed the 

 bark of the trunk twice, once with sal soda, 1 lb. to 4 gallons of 

 water, and another washing with soft soap diluted in water, in 

 consequence the bark is clean and smooth. I trim out all unne- 

 cessary wood every winter, in February, and use the branches 

 taken off for cuttings in my nursery. The best trees had two or 

 three hundred on each, but the whole product of good, merchant- 

 ai)le quinces, was 22,980, which averaged about $1 per 100. I 

 sent them away in barrels; 175 of the largest would fill a flour 

 barrel. I had seven barrels, each of which was filled with that 

 number or under. 



The most profitable part of the crop to me has been the grow- 

 ing of young quince trees from the cuttings. I have sold a great 

 many this fall set out from the cuttingsfour years ago next spring, 

 and have now more than three thousand more for sale, a great 

 many of them having borne fruit in the nursery last, season. I 

 had, last season, one tree three years old from the cutting that 

 had eighty fine quinces on. 



I will now give you a statement of my carrot crop, including 

 cost, mode of culture, and product : 



I raised one I acres of white Belgium carrots. First plowing 



and subsoiling 3 days, $2.50, $7 50 



Second plowing, harrowing and rolling, 2 days, 5 00 



Forty loads of swamp muck with barn-yard manure, 

 decomposed, 1 load of barn-yard to 4 of muck, 50 



cents per load, 20 06 



Seed $1, planting with a machine less than a day $1,. 2 00 



First hoeing, 10 days of boys and 5 of men, 15 00 



'Second hoeing and thinning do, 15 00 



Third hoeing, 12 00 



Three times plowing with small subsoil plow, 6 00 



Three hundred pounds of guano, sown broad-cast 7 50 



Gathering in the crop, 12 00 



