112 



12 1-2 cents per bushel. Total, $14.37 1-2. 



Judo-ino' from the past, and takhig an average season, 

 about 90 bushels, or 4000 bunches, would have been fit for 

 market in Jnly. 



Cost of Ploughing 267 rods, $ 8 00 



" " barn manure, 5^ cords, and applying same, 50 00 

 " " fertilizers, 20 00 



" " weeding and hoeing, 50 00 



" '• cleaning turnips and marketing, 70 00 



$198 00 



Cr. by 6000 bunches, 300 00 



" " 115 bushels at 12J cents, 14 37i 



.$314 37^ 



Balance, $116 37^ 



STATEMENT OF HAYDEN A. MERILL. 



The piece of Cabbage which I enter for premium, was on 

 broken up sod, and was planted about the first of June with 

 Fottler's Brunswick, with the exception of about one-fourth 

 part, which was set out with plants of the same variety, 

 which I procured of one of my neighbors. 



I used two cords of compost in the hill. The compost con- 

 sisted of one-half muck, the balance being horse and cow 

 manure, night soil, fish waste, sea manure, with about 175 

 pounds of Muriate of Potash, the whole being well mixed 

 and fermented. The cost of the compost could not, to the 

 best of my calculations, have been over six dollars a cord. 

 And the same estimate would apply to the squash, with the 

 exception of the cost of the potash. 



I have marketed only one hundred and fifty of the cab- 

 bao-es, they bringing eight cents each. They were sold two 

 weeks ago, and would probably at this time have brought 

 from $10 to $12 per hundred. 



I have counted the heads, and find 1200 that would sell 

 for about $10. per hundred, (the average weight of which 



