242 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Manure, |6 ; hoeing and thinning, |2.50, . |8 50 

 Harvesting', . . . . . . . 1 50 



$5ll 15 



Not Profit, •. ... . . . '5523 85 



Sunderland November 15, 1857. 



FRANKLIN. 



StatemeiU of F. II. Williams. 



Turnips — Quantity of land, 56 rods ; product, 253 bushels. 

 Raised on the land in 1856, oats. Condition of the land in 

 1857, reduced. Used eight loads of compost made after the 

 yards were cleared at planting. A crop of hay was taken from 

 the ground .July 9 ; July 11th, it was ploughed seven inches 

 deep and harrowed. July 11th, manured and sowed hi drills 

 two and one-half feet apart. Cultivated by ploughing with 

 horse between the rows. I manure in drill, and like it much. 

 Cut the tops before pulling, then pull and put in baskets. One 

 hand can pull a hundred bushels per day. 



253 bushels turnips, at 20 cts., . . . $50 60 

 Compost and all other expenses of raising crop, 10 50 



Net profit, $10 10 



Sunderland, November 12, 1857. 



FARM IMPLEMENTS. 



ESSEX. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



Early in the season, notice was given to your committee by 

 the secretary, that Horace Ware, of Marblehead, and Samuel 

 A. Merrill, of Salem, would compete for the premium offered 

 by Mr. Fay, for the best work done by a mowing machine, on 

 not less than fifty acres. 



