110 



Planting, 1.50 



Cultivating and hoeing, 2.00 



Cutting and storing, 11.00 



Five pounds seed, 5.00 



$101.00 

 Asa T. Newhall. 



This is to certify that sixteen loads of squashes raised 

 by Asa T. Newhall of Lynn, on land measured by Oscar 

 Stowell, and entered for premium offered by Essex Agri- 

 cultural Society, weighed (38,470) thirty-eight thousand 

 four hundred and seventy pounds net weight. 



C. M. Newhall, Weigher. 

 Lynnfield, Oct. 4, 1886. 



I hereby certify that the land upon which grew the crop 

 of squashes entered for premium by Asa T. Newhall of 

 Lynn, measures just three hundred (300) square rods. 



Lynnfield, Oct. 25, 1886. Oscar Stowell. 



Note. — Product per acre, 20,517 lbs. squashes. Cost of 

 production per acre, §53. 96. 



STATEMENT OF ANSEL W. PUTNAM. 



To the Committee on Root Crops: 



Gentlemen : — The experiment in potato growing, to 

 which I have called your attention, is one of a series, con- 

 ducted for the purpose of rinding, if possible, a system of 

 cultivation and a variety of seed, so well adapted to high, 

 dry land, and dry weather, as to make potato growing on 

 such land reasonably safe. 



The land is mostly a gravelly loam, but part of it is grav- 



