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Marblehead Mammoth Cabbage variety, and a quarter of a 

 pound planted half an acre. I should put the cost of produc- 

 tion as follows : — 



Ploughing and harrowing, $2 50 



Manure, 20 50 



Applying manure and planting, 4 00 

 Seed, 1 00 



Three harrowings, 5 00 



Three hoeings, 9 00 



Hiring land, 6 00 



$48 00 



The crop was in very large and solid heads, averaging of the 

 size of a half bushel measure or larger. As the largest por- 

 tion of them was for seed purposes, I have no report of their 

 market value to make, though cabbage has ruled low this fall. 

 If I marketed them it would not be in the fall but in the 

 spring, when cabbages always bring paying prices. Any one 

 may see in Boston market, while I now write, good cabbages 

 sold at less than the cost of production, right in the face of 

 the fact that the late planted crop must be quite short, owing 

 to the long dry spell, and hence ultimately, probably within 

 a few weeks, after the refuse of the early crop is out of the 

 market, cabbage, by the law of supply and demand, must 

 rise in value. 



Statement of David Warren concerning crop of Turban Squash- 

 es entered for premium. 



The crop of 1877 was cabbages, the manure applied was 

 equal parts of stable and sea manure, about six cords to the 

 acre. The crop of 1878 was potatoes, the same kind and 

 quantity of manure as year before ; the soil is a black, sandy 

 loam, with clay subsoil. 



For the crop of 1879, plowed the land the middle of May, 

 about six inches deep ; the manure applied was stable manure 

 about eight cords to the acre ; cost four dollars per cord, hauled 



