142 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTUKE. 



Marblehead, 8th Nov., 1872. 



This is to certify that I have this day measured the several 

 tracts of land on the farm of James J. H. Gregory, Esq., that 

 were planted to Hubbard squash the past season, and have 

 found them to contain six and four-sevenths acres. 



Franklin Reynolds. 



Statement of J. J. H. Gregory. 



Cabbages. — The piece of American Improved Savoy Cab- 

 bage which I enter contains 27,000 feet, on which the cabbages 

 by actual measure are two feet apart in the rows, while the 

 rows are three feet apart. The number of plants on the piece, 

 suppose every space to be occupied, would be 4,500. As 

 there are about one hundred missing spaces, the actual num- 

 ber is about 4,400 ; of these five-sixths will average seven 

 inches in diameter and are worth on the ground ten cents a 

 head. The remainder, taken as they run, are worth on an 

 average four cents a head. I do not think there is a cabbage 

 on the piece that has not advanced so far as to form a head. 

 This variety of Savoy I consider of superior excellence for 

 market purposes, from the fact of its being so reliable for 

 heading and making so large a head on so short a stump. 

 This piece was raised on an old onion-bed ; hence the quantity 

 of manure to the acre was less than I am in the habit of apply- 

 insr, it beinjr at the rate of about four cords to the acre. The 

 quality of the manure was very superior, it being made up of 

 a compost of barn-manure, sea-manure, glue-manure and fish- 

 heads and sound bones. The seed was planted al^out the 20th 

 of June in the hills, which were two feet apart, while the rows 

 were three feet apart. The crop received the usual treatment 

 of three cultivatings and three hoeings. The cabbage- worm 

 was fought with a compound made up of twenty parts air- 

 slaked lime, three parts superphosphate and one part of car- 

 bonate of lime. The compound ajjpeared to be efficacious, 

 but this, my first test, demonstrates nothing, although my 

 acre of Marblehead Mammoth Drumhead, to which it was 

 applied several times during the season, appeared to receive 

 a decided benefit. 



