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ready for market ; some weighing from forty to sixty pounds, 

 with stump and leaves on. 



Value of crop : 

 3500 cabbages at $8 per hundred, $280 00 



Surveyor, Thomas Cotton. 

 Salem, Nov. 6, 1862. 



$123 75 



J. J. H. GREGORY'S STATEMENT. 



SQUASHES. 



The piece of land I enter for premium, for squashes, was 

 planted towards the close of May, with Boston Marrow sC[uash, 

 the hills being about 8 by 9, After the plants had developed 

 the sixth leaf, they were thinned to two and three plants per 

 hill. In the course of the season the crop received three cul- 

 tivatings and three hoeings. The crop was well ripened, of 



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