Cost of manure per acre 10 cords at $4.00, 



Ploughing and harrowing. 



Eight bushels seed at 75 cts. per bush., 



Planting with potato planter, 



GOO lbs. phosphate applied with planter, 



Cost of cultivating horse and man 1st time, 



One man two days hoeing. 



Cultivating with horse and man second hoeing, 1 00 



Hoeing and weeding 2 men 2 days, 4 00 



Cost of harvesting crop, 12 00 



■if^SO 00 



The number of bushels per acre of 60 lbs, each was 

 328, variety Early Rose and Hebron, and I commenced to 

 market them July 20th. 



J. Henry Nason. 



Essex Co., West Boxfoed, Mass., Sept. 17, 1892. 



This may certify that I have this day surveyed a 

 potato field for J. Henry Nason of Boxford, containing 

 one and one-third acres (or one and 19-57 acres is the 

 exact measurement), from which Mr. Nason said he 

 had raised four hundred and thirty-eight bushels of pota- 

 toes this year (1892). 



James H. Webster, 



Surveyor, 



STATEMENT OF CROP OF POTATOES RAISED BY E. C. LIT- 

 TLE, SUPT. OF CRYSTAL LAKE FARM. 



Crop of potatoes which I enter for premium was raised 

 on yellow loam, quite rocky. The crop of '91 was Ensilage 

 corn, the land being broken up in the Spring and 

 manure harrowed in. In the Fall, I spread on about six 

 cord per acre, of coarse stable manure drawn from the city, 

 and ploughed it in. In the spring of '92, April 20th, I 



