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in that locality, I can get as large a margin of profit for my 

 labor and the manure expended, on onions, as on any other 

 crop. I do not raise them very extensively. I had only half 

 an acre this year, on which I raised between three and four 

 hundred bushels of good onions. I do not manure as heavily 

 as some men in the eastern part of the State, where they can 

 go to the cities and get manure ; but I have used fertilizers. 

 Last year, upon a quarter of an acre of onions I raised about 

 a hundred and twenty bushels, with nothing but the Stock- 

 bridge Fertilizer. I put on two formulas, and I had a hun- 

 dred and twenty bushels of nice onions, without any manure. 

 I find, in raising cabbages, that I get a larger percentage of 

 large, sound heads, where I use the Stockbridge Fertilizer, 

 than from any other manure. I have used the Stockbridge 

 Fertilizer altogether for the past two or three years univer- 

 sally, for all the crops I have raised ; and in every case I have 

 found that it comes nearer to what' is advertised than any 

 other fertilizer I have bought. As I say, I find, in raising 

 cabbages, that there is a larger per cent of large, sound cab- 

 bages where I use the fertilizer with manure than any 

 other fertilizer. I find cabbage, in my section of the country, 

 a very exhausting crop to the soil. It is almost impossible 

 for me, without extremely heavy manuring, to raise a fair 

 crop of any thing after a crop of cabbage. It takes two or 

 three years for the land to recruit, so that I can raise any crop 

 as I could before I planted the cabbage. My soil is Connecti- 

 cut-river bottom-land, flowed over occasionally, and is good 

 soil, where I can cut enormous crops of grass for a series of 

 years. I find that potatoes are a very paying crop. I raise 

 them at the rate of two hundred and eighty bushels to the 

 acre, and apply at the rate of two formulas of the Stock- 

 bridge Fertilizer to the acre, costing twenty dollars ; and, at 

 the price of potatoes in our vicinity, it is a very paying crop 

 indeed. I think that potato-culture throughout Massachu- 

 setts ought to be encouraged more than it is. It is a staple 

 vegetable, more largely consumed by our population than 

 any other one vegetable, and necessarily we must produce 

 larger crops. The great bulk of our potatoes come from 

 elsewhere ; and, even at fifty cents a bushel, in my section 

 we can hardly raise any crop which pays better. 



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