100 



Bast Saugus, Oct. 30, 1882. 

 This certifies that J. W. Blodgett raised 5 9-10 tons Hub- 

 bard Squasbes and 1100 lbs. second quality on a piece of land 

 containing 1 acre and 17 rods. W. Saunders. 



STATEMENT OF AARON KNOWLTON. 



Statement concerning a crop of Mangold Wurtzels raised by 

 Mr. Aaron Knowlton in tlie town of Essex, Mass., 1882. 

 Crop of 1880 was grass. 1881 crop was Fodder Corn, manure 

 was barn and stable mixed, about thirty loads to an acre. 

 Manure 1882 was thirty-five loads of barn manure alone, 

 spread on in November, and ploughed in nine inches deep. 

 Ploughed again in May twice, same depth, then raked and 

 smoothed and four pounds of seed sown the 12th day of May. 

 Carter's Mammoth seed was used. Cultivated three times, 

 first and second times with a patent wheel cultivator, third 

 time with a hoe, cutting very deep. The soil was a dark, clay 

 loam. The plants were thinned to one foot apart. Finished 

 harvesting the third day of November, 1882. The tops were 

 twisted off as they stood in the field, afterwards the Mangolds 

 were pulled and thrown in heaps, then liauled to the cellar. 

 One load was weighed and the other loads were loaded as near 

 as possible to same size. There were tliirty-nine loads. The 

 load weighed was 2005 lbs., making 39 tons and 195 lbs. in 

 all. The cost of the crop was as follows : — 



Ploughing three times, $15.00 



Cost of manure at the rate of 35 loads to the acre, for 



90 rods, 50.00 



Four pounds of seed and sowing, 4.00 



Cultivating, weeding and thinning, 18.00 



Harvesting, 12.00 



199.00 

 Credit by 39 tons 195 lbs. of Mangolds, at |10 a ton, 1390.97 



Profit of crop, $291.97 



