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VALUE OF CROP. 



By 500 bushels carrots, at 50c., $250 00 



Cost, 60 50 



$189 50 



I value the crop at 50 cts. per bushel, as I am selling 

 for that. 



Respectfully submitted, 



C. C. Blunt. 



I hereby certify that I have measured a field of carrots 

 for C. C. Blunt, entered for premium, and find it contains 

 one-half acre. 



Having measured the croj) on the above piece, the yield 

 is (500) five hundred bushels, 55 pounds to the bushel. 



S. H. Bailey 



STATEMENT OF A CROP OF PAKSNIPS RAISED BY C. C. 

 BLUNT OF ANDOVER. 



Andover, Mass., Oct. 29, 1894. 

 To the Committee on Root Crops : 



The land occupied by the crop of parsnips which I enter 

 for premium is a dark loam, with gravelly subsoil. 



The crop of 1892 was potatoes ; the crop of 1891 car- 

 rots, manured at the rate of six cords per acre ; land 

 ploughed in the fall ; in the spring stable manure, at (5) 

 five cords per acre, and (800) eight hundred lbs. phosphate 

 used on the half-acre. HarroM^ed and brushed, and four 

 lbs. seed sowed on the 15th of April. 



The crop came up well and was not affected by the 

 drought. 



