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as the same would cost any other man, say seventy-five dollars 

 for manure, labor and interest on land. My crop is sold at 

 sixty cents per bushel, delivered at the depot, one and a half 

 miles from my place of residence. 



This is to certify that I assisted in harvestino:, topping, 

 measuring and weighing, the above lot of onions, and that the 

 above statement is correct. 



Edwin Vance. 



Byfield, November 7, 1853. 



I hereby certify that I measured the ground cultivated as 

 above stated, and it contains one-half acre and no more. 



Geo. W. Adams. 



Newbuuy, November 7, 1853. 



Statement of Epkraim Brown. 



Statement of quantity of onions, ruta-baga turnips and car- 

 rots, raised on one-half acre of land to each crop, viz. : — 



407 bushels onions, fifty pounds to the bushel. 

 460 " turnips, sixty " " " 



41,400 pounds carrots, or twenty tons two quarters, and four 

 hundred pounds. 



The land on which the above were raised has been planted 

 with root crops and squashes the three past years, and has been 

 manured liberally with compost of rotten kelp, meadow mud 

 and barn manure. The crops have been carefully cultivated — 

 all weeds kept down. The soil is a strong black loam on the 

 Marblehcad Neck. 



Marblehead, November 15, 1853. 



WORCESTER. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



The entries for premiums on roots the present year, were 

 less than those of last year, and confined exclusively to carrots, 

 no entries for potatoes having been made, owing, undoubtedly, 

 to the prevalence of the potato rot, in the early part of 

 autumn. 



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