91 



Or- 



I>y plants sold. $1 00 



•"• 1201 boxes berries, 210 40 



S217 49 

 68 78 



Profit. *lo8 71 



Profit per acre, 11072 00 



\o. of boxes per acre. 8640 or 270 bushels. 

 Tliis estimate per acre is not figured down to a fine 

 fraction but is practically. correct. 



W. K. Cole. 



W. BoxFORD, Oct. 7, 1896. 

 This is to certify that I have measured the land on 

 wliich grew the Strawberry crop entered by AV. K. Cole 

 for premium. It contains (231^ twenty-three and three- 

 fourths rods. E. S. GuRLEY. 



STATEMENT OF A CROP OF BLACKBERRIES GROWN BY 

 AMOS HASELTINE OF HAVERHILL, IN 1896. 



The crop of Blackberries I enter for premium was grown 

 on bushes set in the spring of 1892, and part of the plot 

 was entered for premium in 1894 and 1895, and for former 

 crops and cultivation, I refer you to the Essex County 

 'J'ransactions for those years. The kinds were Snyder 

 and Taylor. The crop of this year was a full one but the 

 price per quart Avas low, and at the last of the season a part 

 of the crop was not picked for want of pickers. First pick- 

 ing July 25, last Sept. 8. The expenses -were small this 

 year, because the canes were cut in 1895 on account of 

 winter killing, so that this spring there were not many to cut- 



The account is as follows : — 



