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288 bushels parsnips at 90 cts,, 8259 20 



Profit, ^198 -15 



Respectfully submitted, 



C. C. Blunt. 



This certifies that I have measured a tract of land hav- 

 ing on it a crop of parsnips owned by Chas. C. Blunt of 

 Andover and entered by him for a premium, and find it 

 contains eighty square rods. Samuel Thayer. 



Having measured a portion of the parsnips on the above 

 piece, the yield is at the rate of two hundred and eighty- 

 eight bushels on one-half acre, of fifty pounds to the bushel. 



Samuel Thayer. 



STATEMENT OF HENRY A. HAYWARD, ANDOVER. 



The crop of cabbages which I enter for premium was 

 srrown on one acre of land. The land is a dark loam with 

 clay subsoil. It had been in grass for ten years, the sward 

 was turned under, ploughed eight inches deep. Eleven 

 cords of stable manure (measured) was spread on and har- 

 rowed in. Ames fertilizer was used in the hill, nine hun- 

 dred pounds to the acre, planted the 20th day of June in 

 hills about twenty inches apart. Seed used David Warren's 

 Stone Mason, one-half pound, afterward thinned to one 

 plant to a hill, cultivated twice, hoed twice, weeded once, 

 put in beds the last of October. 



COST OF CROP. 

 Ploughing land. 

 Manure at $7 per cord, 

 Furrowing and preparing hill, 

 Planting, 



Cultivating and hoeing twice, 

 Fertilizer, 

 Harvesting, 

 Seed, 



Total cost of crop. 



