102 



The cost of the crop was as follows : 



Ploughing and preparing land, $3.00 



Seed and planting, 5.60 



Cultivating and hoeing, 13.00 



Fertilizer, 5.50 



Four cords of manure and spreading, 26.00 



$53.10 



J. E. Page, Sup't. 

 Pickman Farm, Salem, Oct. 22, 1886. 



I hereby certify that I have this day measured one-half 

 acre of cabbages for J. E. Page, (Pickman Farm), to be 

 entered for premium in the Essex Agricultural Society. 



Chas. A. Metcalf, Surveyor. 

 Salem, Nov. 2, 1886. 



Note. — Cost of crop, per acre, $106.20. 



STATEMENT OF DANIEL CARLETON, OF NORTH ANDOVER, 

 ON CABBAGE CROP. 



The half acre of cabbage entered by me was grown on 

 land that had been in grass for several years. The soil 

 is a gravelly loam ; no fertilizer had been applied while in 

 grass. Sixteen loads per acre of barn manure were spread 

 upon the sod, last April, and ploughed under to the depth 

 of about six inches. The land was harrowed three times 

 with the Acme harrow. The rows were marked off three 

 and a half feet apart, and eight hundred pounds of Cum- 

 berland phosphate per acre sown in the furrows. The 

 furrows were made as shallow as possible and the phos- 

 phate slightly covered with the hoe. The seed was sown 

 by machine, May 22. About three-fourths of a pound of 

 Fottler's cabbage seed per acre was used. The plants 

 were thinned so as to stand about sixteen inches apart in 



