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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



and fifty heads, which I sold with roots on for six cents per head, 

 and which I have estimated would weigh nine pounds per head. 



The expense of the crop has been as follows : — 



For ploughing twice, .... 



harrowing, and furrowing out, . 



nine horse-loads of manure, 



working over manure, 



six loads of compost, at fifty cents per load 



planting, ...... 



laying out manure, .... 



five ounces of seed, .... 



lime sweepings, .... 



hoeing three times, .... 



cultivating once, • . . . 

 • transplanting, ..... 



harvesting, . . . . . 



seventy-fine pounds super-phosphate lime 

 around the roots', .... 



Total, 

 The receipts have been as follows : — 



used 



.$88 37 



Eeceived in September for 2,285 pounds cabbages, 128 20 

 " October for 10,969 " " 76 90 



Total, 



13,254 pounds 



$105 10 



There is left on the field one hundred heads, which will 

 average fifteen cents per head, and four hundred heads which 

 will average fouror five cents per head. 



MiLFORD. 



Statement of Abraham Mead. 



Squashes. — I selected forty-six and one-half rods of tlio 

 poorest portion of a sandy bluff, on Charles River, in Milford, 

 a portion of land which I have possessed some three or four 



