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Note — Product per acre, 



L8.6 tons at $12, $223.20* 



Cost per acre, 106.30 



Profit per acre, s l 16.90 



Allowing manure left in ground for land rent. 



I certify that I measured the land on which the above 

 crop of carrots was raised, and that it contained eighty 

 square rods and no more. 



C. D. Ordwav. 



STATEMENT OF R. JAQTJBS, OF WEST NEWBURY, ON RUTA 

 BAGA TURNIP CROP. 



My turnip crop I offer for premium. The crop of 1886 

 and 1887 was grass, one-half ton to acre. This year I 

 used for the turnips stable manure, at the rate of five 

 cords per acre, no commercial fertilizer being used. Soil 

 is sandy loam. One-half pound of seed was used, sown 

 in drills two feet apart. Was cultivated once. Was 

 weighed in baskets, sixty pounds to the bushel. The 

 result was 275 bushels of merchantable turnips on the 

 half acre. 



Cost of ploughing and levelling, $4 00 



Value of manure, two cords and one-half, 17 50 

 Value of seed and sowing same, 2 00 



Cultivating once, 60 



Weeding and thinning, 5 00 



Harvesting, 12 00 



Profit of half acre, $68 90 



Rate of turnip crop per acre, 550 bush., $220 00 

 Kate of cost of crop per acre, 82 20 



Profit per acre, $137 80 



