84 



To 2 days labor at $1.60, $3 00 



'' Picking 1775 baskets berries at .01, 17 75 



*• Marketing 1775 - " at .OU, 22 19 



42.94 



Or. 

 By 1775 baskets berries, $159 75 



Expenses, 42 94 



Net profit, $116 81 



Net profit per acre, 1757 60 



Gioss receipts, $1032 40 

 Respectfully submitted, 



O. GOWEN. 



West Newbury, Sept. 2, 1895. 

 1 certify that I measured the land on which the crop of 

 red raspberries grew entered by Oscar Gowen for pre- 

 mium offered by the Essex Agricultural Society, and said 

 lot contained twenty-four and 48-100 rods. 



Wm. Merrill. 



STATEMENT OF BLACKBERRY CROP, 1895. 



Tlie blackberry crop I enter for premium was 

 grown on the same piece of land as entered last year, and 

 to avoid repetition I refer you to Essex County Transac- 

 tions for the year 1894, page 112, for measure of land and 

 former cultivation. Last fall the drouth was followed by 

 heavy rains, which caused the canes to grow late, and the 

 eailv cold weather in November froze them while full of 

 sap, killing more than two-thirds of the canes. On my 

 three other pieces of blackberries there was greater dam- 

 age, two of tliem were almost all destroyed, making the 

 total crop of the four pieces for this year, only 4o0 quarts, 



