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The cost per acre I make as follows : 



Plowing and preparing land, $9.00 



Seed and sowing, 3.00 



Cultivating and hoeing, 18,00 



1-2 ton fertilizer and sowing same, 17.00 



Value of manure when spread, 50.00 



Total, $97.00 



Which makes the cost per bbl. a little less than 17 cents. 

 I have charged nothing for thinning the plants, as they were 

 most of them used by myself and neighbors to set again, neither 

 have I charged interest and taxes on land, as there is probably 

 fertilizer unused in the land to more than balance those items. 

 The manure used was made on the farm, and my estimate of the 

 value of that may be either too high or too low. 



Respectfully, 



Daniel Carlton, 



North Andover. 



STATEMENT OF DAVID WARREN, OF SWAMPSCOTT, ON SQUASH CROP. 



To the Committee on Moot Crops: 



The crop of Bay State squashes, which I enter for premium, 

 was grown on one half acre of land. The crop of 1887, was 

 cabbages, manured in the hill at the rate of six or seven cords 

 to the acre. The crop of 1888 was onions, manure applied by 

 going over it twice with Kemp's spreader. 



The soil is a dark loam with gravelly sub-soil. It was 

 ploughed in the spring of 1889, about six inches deep, stable 

 manure applied by going over it once with Kemp's spreader, 

 then harrowed in with common harrow, and a shovelful of stable 

 manure to each hill. Planted, 15th of May, in hills eight feet 

 apart, and four seeds to a hill, cultivated twice and hoed twice. 



I would say here that I planted most of my piece with seed 



