91 



Cost per acre before harvesting $102 00 



VALUE OF CROP IN THE FIELD. 



7500 cabbages at 4 cts. each, $300 00 



Profit per acre, $198 00 



I hereby certify that I have measured a field of cabbage, 

 entered by Daniel A. Carleton, for premium, and find it 

 contains one half acre. 



Amos D. Carleton. 



STATEMENT OF CHARLES C. BLUNT, ANDOVER, CARROT 

 CROP, ONE-HALF ACRE. 



To the Committee on Root Crops : 



The land occupied by the crop of carrots, which I enter 

 for premium is a light loam with a gravelly subsoil. The 

 crop of 1890 was grass ; the crop of 1891, cabbage, 

 manured at the rate of seven cords per acre after the cab- 

 bage crop was harvested. The land was well ploughed ten 

 inches deep, and in the spring barn manure was used at 

 the rate of six cords per acre and 500 lbs. of phosphate, 

 and again ploughed, harrowed, brushed and soveed the 20th 

 of May, in drills fifteen inches apart, using at the rate of 

 two pounds seed per acre, hoed by boys through twice, 

 weeded three times by boys, and the yield was 325 bushels 

 on the half acre. 



