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before harvesting. In regard to measure, I say that they were 

 measured in a basket, and that of 100 baskets, one basket was 

 taken out, and the rest were taken to market and weighed, 

 making 102 bushels, and 18 pounds, Sl^ pounds being a 

 bushel. If the remainder, which were barrelled, overrun at 

 the same rate, there would have been over 340 bushels. 



EXPENSE OF CROP. 



Four cords manure, . 

 Spreading manure and ploughing. 

 Fitting the land and sowing, 

 "Weeding five times, . 

 Harvesting, topping, &c.. 

 Hauling to market. 

 Interest on land. 



Crop sold for . 



From which deduct cost of production. 



Net profit, . 



Byfield, Nov. 12, 1852. 



$16 00 



3 00 



1 50 



20 00 



12 00 



8 50 



3 00 



$64 00 



. 144 25 

 64 00 



. $80 25 

 John L. Hubbard. 



Newbury, Nov. 12, 1852. — This is to certify that we, the 

 subscribers, have measured a lot of onions for Mr. Hubbard, 

 of three hundred and thirty bushels. 



Adams Phalen. 

 John S. Hill. 



Richard P. Waters's Statement. 



The crop of carrots which I entered for examination, have 

 now been harvested, and the result is as follows : From one 

 hundred square polls of land I have taken 555 baskets of 

 orange carrots, weighing, on an average, ^Q lbs. per basket, 

 amounting to thirty one thousand and eighty pounds of car- 

 rots, or at the rate of twenty-five tons per acre. 



The mode of cultivation was as follows. "We manured the 

 land with eighteen ox-cart loads of barnyard manure, two- 

 thirds of which was swamp muck, and one-third pure stable 

 manure composted. This manure was spread and the land 



