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feet apart. The seed was sown July Htli, white German 

 sweet. I harvested two hundred and fift3'-three bushels 

 (253), the average price being forty cents per bushel. 

 Tlie statement is as follows : 



Dr. 



To four cords manure on the ground, $32 00 



Ploughing and harrowing, 2 00 



Seed, 20 



Care and harvesting, 18 60 



152 80 



Cr. 



By 253 bushels turnips, at 40c. *101 20 



Less, 52 80 



Profit per half acre, 148 40 



Respectfully submitted, 



Romulus Jaques. 



I hereby certify that I have measured a tield of turnips 

 entered by Romulus Jaques, and find it contains one 

 half acre. 



R. P. Jaques. 



West Newbury, Oct. 31, 189o. 



.STATEMENT CONCERNING A CHOP OF TURNIPS RAISED 

 BY JAMES C. POOR. 



The half acre of land on which the turnips I enter for 

 premium were grown, was a part of three acres of pasture 

 that I plowed in June. Soil of sandy loam ; fertilizer used 

 l)lain superphosphate with 200 lbs. Bowker's root manure 



