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loaded as near as possible to that. There were 32| loads ; the 

 load weighed was 2050 lbs., making 33 tons and 625 lbs. as 

 weight of crop. The cost of the crop is as follows : 



Cost of ploughing twice, harrowing and marketing, fS.OO 



Value of 17 loads manure, 51.00 



Four pounds of seed and sewing, 3.20 



Cost of cultivation, weeding and thinning, 15.00 



Cost of harvesting, 10.00 



$87.20 



This certifies that I helped to harvest the within named crop 

 of Mangold Wurtzels, and that there was 33 tons, 625 lbs. 



Geo. a. Burnham. 



Essex, Oct. lOth, 1880. 

 This may certify that a load of beets weighed this day, 

 belonging to Aaron Knowlton, weighed gross, 4250 pounds; 

 tare, 2250 pounds ; net weight, 2050 pounds. 



D. A. Burnham, Weigher. 



STRAWBERRIES AND OTHER SMALL FRUITS. 



The Committee submit tlie following report : There were 

 three entries, one each of Strawberries, Blackberries, and Cur- 

 rants ; an improvement on former years, but a little more 

 competition, though increasing the labors of the committee, 

 would have made it more interesting. Each was considered 

 worthy of a premium, and they were therefore awarded to Mr. 

 T. J. King of Newburyport, for crop of Strawberries, premium 

 $10. Mr. L. H. Bassett of North Andover, for crop of Black- 

 berries, $10. Mr. Geo. Gutterson of North Andover, Currants, 

 $10. Their statements are appended and will be found inter- 

 esting. 



We found at Mr. King's a handsome field of Wilson Straw- 

 berries, in rows some seven hundred feet in length, straight 



