136 



Seed and Planting. - - - 3.00 



Three Slidings, - . . _ 4,00 



Three Weedings, - - . . 14.00 



Pulling and Topping, - - - 10.00 



Harvesting, .... 2.50 



Use of Land, . . . . 3.00 $ 70.00 



CABBAGES. 



STATEMENT OF S. A. MERRILL. 



I enter for premium one lot of Brunswick Cabbages, contain- 

 ing one half acre. The land had been planted with potatoes for 

 two years, and before ploughing, three years ago was a piece of 

 old, worn out pasture. The soil is a gravelly loam with hard 

 pan. Have generally dressed with green barn manure about six 

 cords to the acre with three hundred pounds of Peruvian guano, 

 put in the drills after broadcasting the green manure and cultivt- 

 ing it in with the Neswitz harrow. I prepared this half acre 

 about the first of May with three cords of green barn manure, 

 cultivated in, and then sowed the cabbage seed in drills three 

 feet apart. Sowed the seed with Holbrook's seed sower. I 

 hoed and thinned in June, leaving the plants about 2 1-2 feet 

 apart in the drills. I raised twenty-five hundred heads of cab- 

 bage on this half acre which were worth, in the market about 

 six cents per head. The expense of the crop is as follows : — 

 Ploughing, - - - $ 1.50 



Harrowing and cultivating, - - 1.50 



Value of manure, - - - 18.00 



Broadcasting and cultivating, - - 8.00 



Seed, - - - - _ .^o 



Land rent, . . _ _ ^.00 



Marketing, . . . _ 25.00 $59.50 



Value of crop $150.00. Land measured by Patrick Murphy. 



