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Where the wliole cost of manure is charged to the one 

 crop I think it unnecessary to charge interest and taxes. 

 The cost per acre was $140.00 ; the yield per acre 6600 

 heads or 550 bids., and the profit or loss per acre no man 

 knoweth until sold, but whether it be a profitable crop 

 this year or not, ifc was the heaviest field of Stone Mason 

 I ever raised or saw, and there is some satisfaction in a 

 big crop outside of its cash value. 



Chas. W. Mann. 



I hereby certify that the piece of land on which the 

 crop of cabbages, entered for premium by Mr. Mann, was 

 grown, measures 23,920 feet. 



A. A. Tarr. 



STATEMENT OF DAVID WARREN, OF SWAMPSCOTT, ON 

 CABBAGE CROP. 



The crop of cabbages which I enter for premium was 

 grown on land that had been in grass two years preced- 

 ing. The soil is a dark loam with gravelly sub-soil ; 

 ploughed in the fall of 1887, six inches deep; stable ma- 

 nure applied in the spring of 1888 with Kemp's spreader, 

 at the rate of eight cords to the acre, wheel harrowed in 

 with Randall harrow first of June. The seed put in with 

 seed sower, in rows three feet four inches apart, thinned 

 down from two to two and a half feet apart, cultivated 

 twice and hoed twice, and thinned. 



Cost of ploughing in the fall. 



Cost of wheel harrowing in the spring, 



Value of manure on land, 



Cultivating, hoeing and thinning, 



Seed, 



Rent of land, 



Expense of crop on one and one 



quarter acres, $76 00 



Note. — Expenses per aero, $60.80 



David Warren. 



