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Below is a statement regarding two pieces of Squashes, 

 raised by Sidney F. Newman of Newbury, and entered for 

 premium. 



Lot No. 1, contains eighly-two rods. Tlie crop of 1882 

 was grass ; no manure. Crop of 1883, was grass, mowed 

 about the 20th of June, and the ground plowed the 27th of 

 June, and planted to corn fodder, witli 200 lbs. Standard 

 Phosphate in ihe drill. Owing to the drought late in the 

 summer, but a medium crop was harvested. 



The ground is a clayey loam, with gravelly subsoil. The 

 ground was manured with four and a half cords barn 

 cellar manure, spread broadcast, and plowed in, six inches 

 deep, about the middle of May, harrowed with a wheel har- 

 row and smoothed with a Thomas Smoothing Harrow, and 

 planted May 20th, with Clark's No. 1 potatoes, with Ames' 

 Phosphate in the drill, at the rate of 400 lbs. to the acre, 

 in rows three feet apart, leaving every fourth row vacant, 

 to be planted with squashes later. 



The potatoes were cultivated a number of times, and 

 hoed twice by hand. The vacant rows were planted to 

 Essex Hybrid squash, June 18, in hills four and a half feet 

 apart, with a handful of Ames' Phosphate in the hill, well 

 mixed with the soil, and the seed dropped six to a hill, and 

 covered with a hoe. They came up evenly, were cultivated 

 twice, hoed once, and thinned to two vines to a hill. 



Below is a statement of the cost and value of the two 



crops. 



To 4^ cords manure on the ground, 



To 200 pounds phosphate, 



To plowing and harrowing. 



To planting potatoes and cost of seed, 



To cultivating and hoeing potatoes, 



To Paris Green and applying, 



To digging potatoes. 



To planting squash seed and cost of seed, 



To cultivating, iioeiijg and thinning squashes, 



To harvesting squashes and hauling to depot, 



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