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onions tho last four or five years. The yield of onions the 

 present year, as weighed, was 25,960 pounds, which sold at 75 

 cents per bushel delivered in Salern. The cost of cultivation by 

 estimation is as follows : — 



Ploughing, .... 

 Harvesting and raking, 

 Sowing, ..... 

 Seed, ..... 

 8 cords of manure at $5 per cord, 

 Weeding, .... 



Cost of cultivation, 



$77 00 



25,960 pounds at 50 pounds to the bushel, — 519£ bushels. 

 Marbleiiead, November 9, 1859. 



MIDDLESEX NORTH. 



Statement of Joseph S. Farmer. 



Onions. — I measured l-16th of an acre of onions, from which 1 

 gathered 51 bushels. I measured the second l-16th, from which 

 I gathered 46 bushels. These lots were measured before they 

 were pulled, and kept separate from any other. The ground 

 upon which these grew was sown with carrots last year, and 

 never with onions before. The ground was prepared at the 

 rate of twenty to twenty-five loads of manure to the acre. 

 They were sown about the 22d of April, with the rows 15 

 inches apart, and were weeded four times. The following is 

 the cost : — 



Ploughing ground twice and spreading manure, 

 Seed and sowing, ...... 



Manure, ........ 



Weeding four times, . 



Harvesting, ....... 



$12 00 



51 bushels at 80 cents per bushel, 



140 80 



I measured one-eighth of an acre of carrots, and harvested 

 from it 103 bushels,, each weighing 148 pounds. The ground 

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