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EOO T-C EOPS. 



ESSEX. 



Statement of Y. G. Hurd. 



Onions. — I enter for premium one-half acre of onions 

 raised on the county land at the house of correction, Ipswich, 

 this year, 1874. 



The land is a heavy loam on clay bottom, underdrained. 

 It was dressed in the spring with barn-manure, which had 

 been hauled out in the fall, at the rate of nine cords to the 

 acre, as nearly as we could estimate. The land has been in 

 onions three years. It was ploughed four inches deep and 

 raked as smooth as possible. Seed was sown May 4, at the 

 rate of five pounds to the acre. The seed was Danvers Yel- 

 low, and judging by the crop, was a mixture of the flat and 

 round. The rows were thirteen inches apart. Four weedings 

 were necessary. The onions were topped in the field, and the 

 crop was taken off from the 6th to the 14th of October. As 

 the most accurate mode of measurement, I had the entire 

 crop weighed at the town scales. Reckoning 52 pounds to 

 the bushel, and dividing the net weight by 52, I found the 

 number of bushels. 



The crop weighed : 



Merchantable onions, . . . . .433 bushels. 

 Small and scullions, . . . . 15 " 



Total, 448 bushels. 



The crop was sold from the field in bulk, by weight, as fol- 

 lows : 



433 bushels at 75 cents per bushel, . . . $324 75 

 6 " at 60 " " ... 3 60 



Total, $328 35 



