prominent one to settle. And as the calculation shows that Hanson Ordway excelled in this point, they consider him entitled 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 1 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 dollars 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

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

The piece of land I enter for premium, for squashes, was planted towards the close of May, with Boston Marrow squash, 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 cultivatings and three hoeings. The crop was well ripened, of

even size, averaging about ten pounds per squash, and showing all the outward characteristics of purity.

In the year 1858 this tract was in grass; in 1859 it was planted with the Hubbard squash, after a very heavy manuring of about eighteen cords per acre of various manures, principally barn-yard. In the year 18 60 the crop was cabbages, the manure, at the rate of about eight cords per acre, being barnyard, sea manure and unleached ashes. In 1861 the crop was seed cabbage, the manure being cow and hog manure, at the rate of eight cords per acre. This season the only manure applied was a handful of Coe's super-phosphate to the hill. In the early part of the season I had considerable trouble from the small striped bug; the recourse for preventing their depredations was air slacked lime applied to the leaves while moist. The large black bug, known as " stinking" bug or "pumpkin" bug is properly a pumpkin bug—almost entirely disappearing after the cultivation of the pumpkin is given up in any locality. I have found but two of them on my squash vines for the past three years.

Marblehead, Mass., Nov. 8, 1862.

Marblehead, Nov. 8, 1862.

I hereby certify that the piece of land this day measured by me for Mr. James J. H. Gregory was one hundred and eighty feet long, and one hundred forty feet wide, and contains twenty-five thousand two hundred feet. Boston Marrow squashes grown on the above land.

JOS. W. LINDSEY.

This certifies that four loads of squashes from Jas. J. H. Gregory weigh 15,143 gross; 5140 tare; 10,003 net pounds.

A. ALLEN, Weigher.

GEO. B. LORING'S STATEMENT.

MANGEL WURZEL.

The crop of mangel wurzel which I enter for premium was raised on one acre and one-eighth of land. The soil is a heavy clayey loam, has been many years under cultivation, and is a portion of the field, which was thorough drained five years ago. For three years after drainage, it was devoted to grass crops; having been laid down to grass the year previous to draining. Last year it was manured on the sod, twenty-five loads, or a little more than eight cords, to the acre; was plouged with Michigan plough. May 23d harrowed, furrowed and planted to corn, with super-phosphate of lime in the hill. Early in November following it was fall-ploughed.

Early in May of this year it was manured with eight cords of barn-yard manure to the acre, ploughed again, and left until May 20th. It was then ploughed again, harrowed and drilled. Seven cords of manure, a compost of barn-yard manure with sand and muck, were applied in the drills.

The seed was soaked thirty-six hours in water poured hot upon it. The tops of the drills were carefully raked. An implement made of plank four inches wide and three feet long, from the bottom of which projected pins two inches long and an inch and a quarter in thickness, and seven inches apart, and on the top of which was fastened a frame handle, made by nailing narrow stripes of boards, two and one-half feet long, to the ends of the plank, and fastened together at the top by a short strip a foot and a half long-was used for making holes into which the seed was to be dropped. This latter process was also done by hand; and the seed was covered by the hoe. In this way I secured an even crop, and avoided the necessity of thinning, which attends the use of a seed sowing machine. Six men (two making the holes, two dropping the seed and two covering) sowed the piece in one day. The crop was hoed twice, and, late in the season, was once cleared of weeds by

hand. The seed was imported, and was a mixture of Long Red and Yellow Globe. The crop was by measurement (60 pounds to the bushel) 1800 bushels.

The account with the crop stands as follows:

Cr. by 1800 bushels of roots at 9 cents per bushel.

$135 00

The cost of these roots, 9 cents per bushel, is certainly not extravagant, considering their value as food, and the usual market price. They usually sell for seven dollars per ton, of sixty pounds to the bushel, or about thirty-four bushels to the ton; and at this rate bring twenty cents and a fraction per bushel. The market for them is not large, it is true; but they give ample remuneration for the expense and trouble of raising, in their benefit to milch cows.

According to analysis and experiment, four hundred pounds of mangel wurzels are equivalent to one hundred pounds of English hay. At sixty pounds to the bushel, the crop weighed ninety-six thousand pounds, or forty-eight tons, equivalent to twelve tons of hay, taking the estimate that four tons of mangels are equal to one ton of hay. For the production of milk, I have no doubt that the forty-eight tons of mangels are worth more than the thirteen and one-half tons of hay.

Salem, Nov. 10, 1862.

Salem, Nov. 13, 1862.

This certifies that I have this day measured the lot of land,