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6V. 



By 740 bu. at 30 cts. $257 00 



16 loads of tops, 16 00 



$21S 00 



The tops I consider worth the above amount, as when 

 I commenced to feed them out, the 16 cows were giving 

 an average of eleven cans of milk per day, with some 

 grain. I stopped giving grain and fed one cart load of 

 tops per day. They have the same pasture feed as be- 

 fore and they gained after four days feeding up to fifteen 

 cans. The last three days I fed them, they gave 



eighteen cans per day. 



Yours respectfully, 



E. C. Little. 

 P. S. I used Stockbridge potato manure on four 

 rows right through the middle of the piece and after 

 the first of August could see a difference in their favor 

 and at the time of harvesting, the mangels were much 

 larger. 



This is to certify I measured a piece of land for E. 

 •C. Little, on which was raised a crop of mangels, entered 

 for premium, and it contained 106 rods. 



E. M. Emerson. 



.STATEMENT OF J. HENRY NASON, BOXFORD, POTATO 



CROP. 



The crop on this land in 1890 was grass, about one 

 ton to the acre, no manure. 



The crop in 1891 was sweet corn and applied ten 

 cords of manure to the acre. This piece of land is a 

 rich loam, with a subsoil of gravel ; the manure on this 

 piece was ploughed in about five inches deep in 1891. 



In 1892 used the same amount of manure and ploughed 

 it in about six inches deep, 



