88 



1897. The corn hills were split with a Randall Harrow, 

 ploughed seven inches deep, harrowed and sowed to Oats, 

 three bushels to the acre, without manure or fertilizer of 

 any kind. Seed, White Dutch Oats of my own raising. 

 The soil clay loam. 



COST OF CROP. 



To ploughing and harrowing, 

 Sowing, harrowing and smoothing, 

 Seed oats. 



Cutting and binding with machine. 

 Drawing and moving, 

 Threshing and winnowing, 



$74 75 



Gr. 



By 215 bu. of Oats, at 40 cents, $86 00 



" 3 tons of straw, $9 per ton, 27 00 



Value of crop, $113 00 



52 bu. to the acre, 



Profit, $38 25 



Respectfully submitted, 



C. K. Ordway & Son. 



I hereby certify that I have measured the land on which 

 the oats entered for premium grew, owned by C. K. Ord- 

 way & Son, and it contained four acres and twenty rods. 



Richard Newell. 



STATEMENT CONCERNING CORN CROP RAISED BY JOHN 

 N. MESBRVB, OF NORTH ANDOVER IN 1897. 



1895. Old grass ground, grass very poor. 



1896. Crop, corn, potatoes, beans and peas. Horse- 

 manure was used, about 25 loads to the acre. The soil 



