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the rows. By having the plants stand thick in the rows 

 I get heads of the right size to suit my customers ; were I 

 raising them for Boston market I should put them further 

 apart. In Lawrence very large heads are hard to sell. 

 The piece was hoed by hand three times, and the horse 

 hoe used once a week until the cabbages were too large 

 for the team to go between the rows. The drouth affected 

 a part of the piece in the latter part of the season, so that 

 the crop did not look as well at the time of the commit- 

 tee's visit as it did a month earlier. 



As it was impossible to harvest and dispose of the whole 

 of the crop in season to make a report, I followed the sug- 

 gestion of the committee, and measured off a half acre of 

 fifty rows of equal length, and then cut the cabbages from 

 every tenth row and trimmed them for market. From 

 these five rows I sold twenty-one barrels of cabbages, that 

 would weigh considerable over one hundred pounds per 

 barrel ; this would give a yield of four hundred and twenty 

 barrels per acre, which at the present low price of fifty 

 cents per barrel, amounts to $210 per acre. I intend to 

 keep a part of the crop a while by cutting the heads off 

 and laying them on grass land one head deep in the same 

 position as they grew, on the south side of a double wall, 

 and covering them with pine needles. Whether they are 

 worth more than present prices for that purpose remains 

 to be proved. 



The cost of the crop per acre I make as follows : 

 Ploughing and preparing land, $10.00 



Seed and sowing, 3.00 



Cultivating and hoeing, 20.00 



800 lbs. phosphate and sowing same, 15.00 



Value of manure when spread, 40.00 



Marketing (estimated cost at wholesale), 75.00 

 Interest on land, 6.00 



$169.00 



