122 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



Adding to this amount one-third of the value of the manures 

 which remain in the land, $90.33, gives the actual profit of 

 $784.33. 



FRANKLIN. 



Statement of F. H. Williams of Sunderland. 



Turnips. — The land upon which his crop was raised, was 

 about one hundred rods, and was in grass, in fair condition, 

 in 1875, upon which was used twenty one-horse cartloads of 

 horse, hog, and muck compost, ploughed July 21, about six 

 inches deep, laying the furrows flat, and after beating so that 

 no sods should turn up, was well harrowed, the manure being 

 covered with a tobacco ridger and sowed in drills on these low 

 ridges, two and one-half feet apart, with the strap-leaf variety, 

 one pound of seed to the acre. Cultivated the crop once, 

 hand-hoed once, and thinned. One rod of ground produced 

 271^ pounds = 27,125 pounds on the one hundred rods, the 

 tops having been cut before harvesting. Two rows were 

 hauled together with a potato hook, then gathered into the 



cart. 



Cost of Crop. 



Seed, . . . $0 75 



Manure, 20 00 



Labor, 10 00 



Harvesting, 10 00 



Total, $40 75 



5421 bushels, at 20 cents, 108 50 



Profit, $67 75 



DEERFIELD VALLEY. 

 Statement of E. C Haivks of Charlemont. 



Turnips. — The land on which my crop of turnips was grown 

 — which I have entered in your society for premium — was 

 Deerfield River bottom land, and nearly all sand, which had 

 drifted upon it in the freshet of 1869. The crop of 1874 

 was potatoes, manured with stable manure, at the rate of ten 

 cords per acre. The crop of 1875 was turnips, manured with 



