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Methuen, Aug. 26, 1889. 

 I hereby certify that I have this day measured a tract of laud 

 for John H. George, ou which was a crop of potatoes, entered 

 by him for premium of the Essex Agricultural Society, and that 

 said tract contained oue half an acre. 



Jos. S. Howe. 



STATEMENT OF DANIEL CAELTON, OF NORTH ANDOVEB, ON CABBAGE 



CEOP. 



To the Committee on Root Crops: 



Gentlemen : The half acre of cabbage entered by me, was 

 grown on land that had been in grass for six years. No fer- 

 tilizer had been applied while in grass. The soil is a dark shal- 

 low loam, resting upon a rocky sub-soil, and has natural drain- 

 age. Twenty loads of green cow manure per acre were spread 

 upon the sod last spring, and plowed under six inches deep. 

 The land was then thoroughly harrowed with the Acme harrow. 



The rows made 3 1-2 feet apart, and 1-2 ton per acre of Cum- 

 berland, super-phosphate sown in the drills. The seed was 

 sown by machine, using 3-4 lbs. of Fottler's Improved Bruns- 

 wick cabbage seed per acre, sown May 20. Seed was raised by 

 Warren P, Barker, of Danvers, and came up well, so that there 

 were no vacant places to fill. The plants were thinned so as to 

 stand about 18 inches apart in the row. The piece was hoed by 

 hand twice, and the cultivator used between the rows once a 

 week until the cabbages were two large for the team to go be- 

 tween the rows. The half acre contains twenty rows of equal 

 length, and as I do not wish to dispose of the whole crop at 

 present price, I have harvested two rows which yielded 29 bbls. 

 of solid cabbage, trimmed for market, weighing considerable 

 over 100 lbs. per bbl. These two rows were no more than an 

 average of the twenty in the half acre. This would give a yield 

 of 580 bbls. per acre. 



