102 



lb. of Brunswick cabbage seed per acre. The plants were 

 thinned so as to stand one foot and a half apart in the rows. 

 The piece was hoed by hand twice ; the cultivator used of- 

 ten until the heads were formed. The soil is a dark shal- 

 low loam resting upon a stony sub-soil ; no manure had been 

 applied while in grass. There are now on the half acre 

 4,320 cabbages of good size, and very solid, fit for market. 

 One row cut just as they stood, weighed an average of ten 

 lbs. each. Scarcely a soft head can be found on the piece. 

 There are a few cracked ones that are not counted. 



I make the cost of the crop per acre as follows, viz. 

 Plowing and preparing land, $8 00 



Seed and sowing, 3 00 



Cultivating and hoeing, 16 00 



i ton fertilizer, 17 00 



20 loads manure spread on land, 50 00 



$94 00 

 which makes the cabbages cost nearly one and one-tenth 

 cents each. 



Respectfully, 



Daniel Carleton. 

 No. Andover, Oct. 10,1890. 



To the Committee on Root Crops. 



The crop of cabbages which 1 enter for premium was 

 raised on land that onions had been grown on the two pre- 

 ceding years. The soil is a dark loam with gravelly sub- 

 soil, ploughed in the spring six inches deep, stable manure 

 applied with Kemp spreader by going over it twice at the 

 rate of eight to ten cords to the acre, cut in with wheel 

 harrow, smoothed off with drag, seed put in the 14th of 

 June with Mathews' seed sower, three feet, two inches apart, 

 thinned down from 16 to 24 inches apart, cultivated twice 



