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prominent one to settle. And as the calculation shows that 

 Hanson Ordway excelled in this point, they consider him en- 

 titled to the premium. 



They are unanimous, also, that Mr. Huntington would be 

 entitled to a gratuity, were any allowed, for the care and skill 

 with which he managed his crop. 



S. A. MERRILL'S STATEMENT. 



CABBAGES. 



I submit the following statement of a cabbage crop that I 

 raised this season. Last fall I selected an acre of old worn 

 out grass field, from which I had about one ton of hay to the 

 acre, turned it over last fall, ploughing eight inches deep. 

 Early in spring spread four cords of green barn manure to the 

 acre, and cross ploughed four inches deep ; then opened my 

 drills three feet apart, putting one barn-shovel full of compost 

 manure to each hill — the hills being three feet apart — and 

 covering it about one inch deep ; then dropping in my seed and 

 covering it one-half an inch deep. The second week in May 

 I hoed and thinned the plants to two in a hill. About this 

 time I also scattered on each hill a small quantity of plaster, 

 to prevent the cabbage bug from destroying the plants when 

 small. About the second hoeing, thinned to one plant in the 

 hill. About the middle of August, I commenced gathering 

 them for the market, receiving for the first gatherings ten dol- 

 lars per hundred, and less as the season advanced. My whole 

 crop brought from seven to ten, and averaged eight dollars 

 per hundred. I gathered thirty-five hundred cabbages from 

 this acre, averaging from twenty to thirty pounds each, when 



