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MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



400 loads surface mud at 20 cents per load, . $80 00 

 23 bushels cranberries in 1863 at $4 per 



bushel, 92 00 



130 bushels the present season worth $4 per 



bushel, 520 00 



Cost of land, labor in grading, sanding, set 



ting vines, weeding, &c., . 

 Interest and tax, . . . '. 

 Cost of gathering berries two years. 

 Preparing berries for market. 

 Use of water from reservoir. 



$150 00 

 50 00 

 80 00 

 20 00 

 10 00 



$692 00 



310 00 



Gain, 



. $382 00 

 George Batchelder. 



BRISTOL. 



Statement of Joseph M. Newcomh. 



The crop of 1863 was cranberries. No manure used. The 

 crop of 1864 was cranberries. No manure used. The soil is a 

 peat mud about two feet. No ploughing or other preparation. 

 Flow the meadow everj winter. No manure used. In previous 

 years, before 1859, have put on two coats of sand. Harvested 

 from September 25th to 30th. This year I have gathered, with- 

 out any preparation of the land, 16^ barrels of cranberries, at 

 $12 per barrel, $196. Cost of gathering, $16.33 ; preparing 

 for market, $5 ; barrels, $2.67 ; taxes and interest, $3.60 ; total 

 expense, $27.60 ; net profit, $168.40. 



I claim the premium on the greatest net profit on one acre of 

 land. Joseph M. Newcomb. 



From actual measurement, I hereby certify that the land 



which the above crop of cranberries covered, contained 160 



rods, and no more. 



J. W. Capron, Acting Surveyor. 



Statement of William Babbitt. 



The crop of 1863 was five barrels of cranberries. No manure 

 used. The crop of 1864 was 27 barrels of berries. No manure 

 used. The soil is a mud from one to twenty feet deep. No 



