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and hoed once. The piece is twenty-two rods long and six 

 rods and two feet wide, contains thirty-one rows of an 

 average of one hundred and ninety- five solid heads to a 

 row, making over six thousand heads to the piece, although 

 the committee made it more than that. The value of the 

 crop in the field at present prices is four cts. per head, al- 

 though they are of much more value to me as I use them 

 for seed. 



COST OF CROP. 



Cost of manure on land, 



Ploughing, 



Wheel harrowing and dragging, 



Cultivating, hoeing and thinning, 



Seed, 



Rent of land, 



Swampscott, Oct. 29, 1890. 



Swampscott, Oct. 23, 1890. 



This certifies that a piece of land measured by me con- 

 tained one hundred and thirty-four rods of cabbage raised 

 by David Warren, of Swampscott. 



Allen Rowe. 



Andover, Mass., Oct. 30, 1890. 

 To the Committee on Root Crops. 



The land occupied by the crop of parsnips which I enter 

 for premium, is a light loam with gravelly subsoil. 



The crop of 1888 was onions with barn manure at the rate 

 of six cords per acre ; the crop of 1889 was onions with same 

 amount of manure as year previous. 



