250 



MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



was onions, manured with six cords of barnyard manure per 

 acre, spread and ploughed in the fall of 1869, nine inches deep. 

 In the spring of 1870 I spread on about sixty bushels leached 

 ashes, harrowed through with a tooth and brush harrow. Last 

 fall I spread on about six cords of stable manure, and ploughed 

 it in about six inches deep. This spring I harrowed in about 

 three cords of salt sand to the acre. (By the way, I bought this 

 salt sand for muscle bed, and I really think that my land 

 would have been in as good a condition if I had used ten 

 bushels of salt per acre instead, and saved some hard teaming 

 and some money.) I sowed with seed sower about the 1st of 

 April, with Danvers yellow onion seed, at the rate of four 

 pounds to the acre. The ground was hoed and weeded three 

 times. The onions entered for premium were pulled about 

 the 5th of September, and I don't think I had half a dozen 

 scallions in the bed. They were fit for topping in a few days 

 after they were pulled. 



Value of manure on half acre, 

 Cost of ploughing, harrowing, etc., 

 Cost of seed and planting, 

 Cost of cultivation, 

 Cost of harvesting, 



135 00 



5 00 



10 75 



18 00 



12 00 



$80 75 



Middleton, Sept., 1871. 



A. P. Notes. 



Statement of Paul T. Winkley. 



Potatoes. — The land on which the potatoes grew which I 

 enter for premium was in grass in 1869, and had been for six- 

 teen years. Last year we put on forty ox-cartloads barn ma- 

 nure, and ploughed in about six inches deep, and planted it to 

 corn in drills for cows when green. The land is what we call 

 clay loam. Last spring it was ploughed about six inches deep 

 and planted with Peerless potatoes, with no manure, in drills 

 about three feet between rows and fifteen inches apart in the 

 drills, cut in pieces with two eyes in a piece. 



