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quantity of barn-yard manure. The soil is a black loam on 

 a clay bottom. The land was ploughed last fall after the 

 potatoes were dug, and ploughed again in the spring, and 

 harrowed thoroughly. 



About the 20th of May the hills were dug two feet deep, 

 and from three to four feet in diameter, and were about eight 

 feet apart. On the 25th of May a quantity of the surround- 

 ing top soil was thrown into each hill, then a layer of good 

 stable manure was put in, then another layer of soil, and so 

 on in the same manner until the hill was nearly full, when 

 the whole was thoroughly mixed together with a manure fork. 

 The seeds, eight in a hill, were then planted about two inches 

 deep. When the plants were well up, each hill was covered 

 with a box of netting to keep off the bugs. About the first of 

 July the boxes were taken up, the plants thinned out (leav- 

 ing four to six in a hill) and hoed after going over the ground 

 with a cultivator. The quantity of manure put in each hill 

 was about three bushels. 



On the 19th day of September the crop was gathered and 

 the weight was 4,630 pounds. The land measured twenty- 

 five rods. 



I hereby certify that I have this day measured the land on 

 which John Danforth, Jr., raised his crop of squashes, and 

 find it contains twenty-five square rods, and no more. 



H. R. WILEY, Acting Surveyor. 



Lynnfield, September 19th, 1865. 



I hereby certify that I have this day weighed the crop of 

 squashes raised by John Danforth, Jr., and find the weight of 

 the same to be 4,630 pounds. 



SAMUEL HARDING, Town Weigher. 



Lynnfield, September 19th, 1865. 



