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were covered with a good coat of meadow hay, which was 

 mostly removed in April. The soil is high and gravelly. 

 The cost of cultivation is as follows : 



Preparing ground, setting plants, weeding, etc., $18.00 



Pickiug 800 boxes, at 2cts., 16.00 



Marketing, 8.00 



Manure, estimating at one-half cost, 9.40 



$51.00 

 Amount of crop 800 boxes, at 13 cts., 104.00 



Balance in favor of crop, $52.60 



Note— With certificate of Surveyor 41 31-100 rods aa a basis, the 



crop per acre, was 3099 quarts at 13c „ $402 87 



Cost of crop $199.07 per acre, 199.07 



Profit per acre, $203.80 



Amesbury, Oct. 11, 1889. 



This certifies that I have this day surveyed, for Lewis B. 

 Davis, of this town, a strawberry patch which has been fruited 

 the past season and find the same to contain 41 31-100 rods of 

 ground. 



Jos. Merrill, Surveyor. 



STATEMENT OF DANIEL STILES, OF NORTH ANDOVER, ON BLACKBERRY 



CROP. 



Seven years ago the land, the bushes stand on, was grass 

 land* poor at that. I ploughed it up and set out 200 plants 

 of the Wachusett thornless blackberries on the sod and planted 

 beans and potatoes on the rest of the piece, using 200 pounds of 

 Stockbriclges, and no other manure. The next year the same, 

 bought 200 more plants, and set them out ; used the same 

 amount of Stockbridge fertilizer. The next year I had plants 



