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taken from quite large squashes, and found I had one quarter 

 more crop than those taken from small ones. 

 Cost of crop : 



Rent of land, $3.00 



Ploughing, 1.50 



Manure, 4 cords, 20.00 



Furrowing and preparing hill, .75 



Planting, .75 



Cultivating and hoeing twice, 3.00 



Cost of harvesting, 3.00 



Seed, 1.00 



Cost on eight}' square rods, $33.00 



Product on same, 12095 lbs. 



Swampscott, Sept. 14, 1889. 

 This certifies that I have this day measured a tract of land, 

 having on it a crop of squashes, owned by David Warren, of 

 Swampscott, and entered by him for the Essex Agricultural 

 Society's premium, and that such tract contained eighty rods of 

 land. Allen Rowe. 



Swampscott, Sept. 30, 1889 

 From David Warren, 5 loads of squashes, gross 29,120 lbs ; 

 tare 17,025 lbs ; net 12,095 lbs. 



C. S. Lewis, Weigher. 



STATEMENT OF CORNELIUS MOYNIHAN, OF NEWBURY. 



M} r Ruta Baga turnip crop I offer for premium. The crop of 

 1887 was corn and corn fodder. It was ploughed up from past- 



