87 



A^mount brought up - - $620 00 



Ploughing of land, - - - - 3G 00 



Harrowing and cultivating, - - - 20 00 



Planting, ----- 9 00 



Seed, - - - - - - 12 00 



Cultivating four times, _ _ - 15 00 



Hoeing four times, - - - - 25 00 



Liming once, - - - - 4 00 



Cutting and collecting, - - - 15 00 



-fT5() 00 



Value of Crop. 

 42 tons at 840 per ton, - - - $1680 00 



Deduct cost,. - ^ - - - 756 00 



Profit, ... - .f924 00 



Marblehead, Sth 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, 



To Chairman of Committee on Roots: — The piece of 

 American Improved Savoy Cabbage, which I enter, contains 

 27,000 feet, on which the cabbage 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 number 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 



