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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Plants, ..... 



3 days setting out plants, at $2 per day 

 7 days hoeing, " " " 



4 days covering with hay and oak leaves 

 Half ton fresh hay for covering, 

 Uncovering in spring, and protecting 



against frost, 2| days, . 

 2 1 days weeding after uncovering, . 

 3 days watering plants, 

 Picking and marketing 920 boxes of 

 strawberries, at nine cents per box 

 Marketing plants, 



$188 80 



Profit, 



188 80 



In the foregoing statement the interest on land, manure and 

 labor investment is not included. Neither is any account made 

 of the manure left in the soil ; probably it would be fair to 

 offset one against the other. Neither is anything credited for 

 vines left on the land, though they have a value, but not a 

 great one. 



The fruit was grown from plants set in the ground the first 

 of May, 1870 ; plants set in rows, four feet apart, two feet 

 apart in rows, and allowed to cover three-fourths of the ground. 

 Varieties, Wilson and Cutter seedling. 



Chas H. Dwelley. 



Statement of Jedediah Dwelley. 



The subscriber makes application for a premium for the most 

 productive and most profitable plantation of strawberries, not 

 less than one-eighth of an acre 



Amount of land, 28 rods ; soil, clayey loam. 



PRODUCT. 



790 boxes of strawberries, average price 28 cts. per 



box, $220 20 



1,000 plants, at $5.00, 



5 00 



$225 20 



