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on the land in the spring, and spread and cut in with a wheel 

 harrow ; then the land was smoothed with a common harrow, 

 and furrowed out eight feet apart, and planted in hills eight 

 feet between each hill, with shovelful of same kind of manure 

 in each hill mixed in the soil. Cost of ploughing and prepar- 

 ing land for seed, eight dollars. Planted with squashes the 

 last week in May. Amount of seed, one and one-half pounds, 

 cost two dollars and a quarter, cost of planting, fifty cents. 

 Cultivated three times with a horse hoe, and hoed twice by 

 hand, at a cost of four dollars and seventy-five cents. Gath- 

 ered the crop the 23d of September, laid in heaps till the 3d 

 of October ; cost of harvesting, five dollars. 



One load was weighed by the town weigher of Swampscott ; 

 the others loaded as near as possible in same wagon, making 

 nine tons and six hundred pounds of merchantable squashes, and 

 about fifteen hundred pounds of refuse squashes on the piece. 



Swampscott, Nov. 1, 1879. 

 This certifies that I measured a piece of ground on which 

 the above crop was grown, and there were one hundred and 

 thirty-five rods in said piece. A. Rowe. 



GREATEST PRODUCE OF MILK FROM HERD OF 



COWS. 



No. 3 under the head of Dairy, reads : " For the greatest 

 produce of milk on any farm in proportion to the number of 

 cows producing it, not less than four, from April 1, 1878 to 

 April 1, 1879, statement to be made of the exchanges made, 

 manner and expense of food, use made of milk, and such oth- 

 er facts as will illustrate the entire management, special re- 

 gard being had to the mode in which the account is kept." 



One entry only was made, by J. D. W. French, Esq., of 

 North Andover, of his herd of cows (8 cows and 4 heifers.) 



Your Committee, carefully examining for the limited time 

 given them, the written statement made by Mr. French, as 

 also his printed statement of milk record of his whole herd, 

 from which statement we there only learned the quantity or 



