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Cr. By 610 quarts at 8 to 10 cents, 53 00 



Dr. To balance of expense, 134 00 



Crop per acre : 

 3498 quarts currants Dr. per acre, $194 9T 



The above statement is respectfully submitted, 



Amos Haseltine. 



Haverhill, Mass., Aug. 3, 1894. 

 This is to certify that I have measured the land on 

 which grew the crop of currants entered for premium, by 

 Amos Haseltine, and find it to contain 27.9 square rods. 



E. A. Emerson. 



statement concerning a crop of blackberries, 



raised by AMOS HASELTINE, OF HAVERHILL. 



The twenty-two and one-fifth square rods of land, on 

 which the blackberry crop grew, which I enter for premium 

 was a piece of worn-out pasture, partly covered with gray 

 birches, a light soil and somewhat dry. The birches were 

 dug out, and the land plowed in 1890, and planted with 

 potatoes, using fertilizer broadcast and in the drill. 



In 1891, a light coat of manure was plowed under, fertil- 

 izer put in the drills and again planted with potatoes. 



In 1892, it was again manured and plowed under, and 

 400 Snyder blackberry plants were set in rows, seven feet 

 apart, and from one to three feet apart in the rows, accord- 

 ing to strength of the plant, and one row of potatoes was 

 planted between each row of blackberries. 



In 1893, they were pruned three times, cultivated, hoed 

 and weeded, staked and side-wired. 



In 1894 they were pruned in the spring, and cross-wired 

 about one cross-wire to a rod, to keep them from spreading, 

 leaving the rows from two to three feet wide. After blos- 

 soming, all canes that were barren were cut out; and before 

 picking, the sprouts in the paths were cut, and the new 



