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corn and potatoes the year before. Plowed about ten inches 

 deep, spread on and plowed in ten cart loads of green manure, 

 and put twelve loads in the hill. Planted May 15 ; hoed twice ; 

 harvested September 15 ; was planted in rows four feet apart, 

 and two feet between the rows, and cut up by the roots when 

 quite hard. Produce sixty-nine bushels and eighteen quarts, 

 worth ninety-five cents per bushel. Cost of growing not given. 



In the report of the incidental committee is found the fol- 

 lowing, and if it should prove that " leached ashes and' coal 

 dust" applied to clayey loam will produce such onions, in other 

 instances as well, the cultivation of this crop may be resumed 

 with a confidence which has not been felt since the maggots 

 have evinced such a disinclination to accept the "leave to with- 

 draw" constantly tendered to them for some years past. 



" Major Loring Adams of Wilton, presented for examination, 

 one-half bushel of onions, as a fair specimen of eight bushels 

 raised on abed fifteen by eighteen feet; soil, a clayey loam, 

 dressed with leached ashes and coal dust. The onions were of 

 very superior quality, fully equal to the best "Danvers"and 

 eminently demonstrate the practicability of their cultivation in 

 Franklin county." 



