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STATEMENT OF JAMES MANNING, ON TURNIP CROP. 



I sowed turnip seed July 28th. I dug four rows from 

 half acre measured, and got 32 bushels from twenty-five 

 rows of turnips, which would be 200 bushels in the half 

 acre. I put on two cords of composted manure in drill, 

 $21 ; seed, 30 cents, half pound ; ploughing, 75 cents ; 

 sowing, 50 cents ; thinning, $1 ; cultivating and harvest- 

 ing, $2.50. The price I am selling them for is 50 cents 

 a bushel— would be $100. Profit, $82.95. 



Note. — Products, 400 bushels turnips per acre, $200 05 



Expenses, per acre, 34 10 



Profit, per acre, exclusive of land rent value, $165 90 



STATEMENT OF CYRUS K. ORDWAY OF WEST NEWBURY. 

 CARROT CROP. 



This crop of carrots I offer for premium was raised on 

 land that was in carrots last year. Last spring I put on 

 2 1-2 cords of barn-yard manure and ploughed it about 

 eight inches deep and sowed it to carrots. The seed was 

 the Danvers Long Orange of my own raising. Hoed and 

 weeded the crop three times during the season, and thinned 

 to about five inches the second weeding. Finished har- 

 vesting the crop Oct. 21. Weighed the entire crop on 

 the public scales and had 18,000 pounds. 



Total, $62. 35* 



