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other cultivators. As a dressing for onions, I give the prefer- 

 ence to well-rotted stable manure. 



Danvers, October 2Qth, 1847. 



Daniel Osboni's Statement. 



I offer for a premium a crop of onions, raised from one acre 

 and thirty-two rods of land, measuring eight hundred and sev- 

 enty bushels. Land worth two hundred dollars per acre ; dark 

 soil, western descent. A crop of onions has been taken from the 

 land, a number of years in succession, none of them, however, 

 so large as the one the present year. The manure which has 

 been used is well-rotted stable manure, worth four dollars and 

 twenty-five cents per cord at the stable. The land has been 

 ploughed to a depth just sufficient to bury the dressing. Be- 

 tween the first and middle of April of the present year, the land 

 was manured, ploughed, and prepared as usual, and a few oun- 

 ces less than three pounds of seed sowed to the acre. The usual 

 method of hoeing with a machine, and weeding by hand, was 

 pursued. The crop was harvested by the twentieth of Sep- 

 tember, and carefully measured in a bushel basket. 

 The statement of the expenditures is as follows : — 

 Six cords of manure at $4 25 per cord, . $25 50 

 Spreading manure, preparing and sowing, . 6 00 



Two and seven eighths lbs. of seed at $1 00 per lb., 2 87 

 Hoeing, . . . . . 6 00 



Weeding, . . . . 12 00. 



Harvesting, . . . . 8 00 



Making an aggregate amount of . . $60 37 



Danvers, October 29th, 1847. 



