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nvoulclliave l)een iin as good a condition if I had used ten bush- 

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

 some money.) I 8owed with seed sower about the 1st of 

 April, with Dunvers 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 Avere pulled about the 

 5th of September, and I don't tliink I had half a dozen scall- 

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

 they were pulled. 



Value of manure on half acre, $35 00 



Cost of ploughing, harrowing, etc., 5 00 ' 



Cost of seed and planting, 10 75 



Cost of cultivation, 18 00 



^Cost of harvestinii', 12 00 



I take pleasure in saying that the seed I have bought of you 

 thas always proved to be good. Yours trulv, 



A. V. XovKs. 



J. J. H. (fllEGOUV, Es(|. 



STATEMENT OF PAUL T. WINKLEY. 



Gentlemen, — The land on -which the potatoes grew which I 

 ■enter for premium, Avas in grass in 18(31) and had been for six- 

 teen years. Last year Ave put on forty ox cart loads barn ma- 

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

 corn in drills for cows when G:reen. The land is Avhat we 

 call clay loam. Last spring it was plowed about six inches 

 •deep and planted Avith Peerless potatoes, Avith no manure, in 

 drills aljout tlu'cc feet between roAA's and fifteen inches ap*art in 

 the drills, cut in pieces AA'itli tAvo eyes in a piece. 



The crop is 340 bushels, (!0 lbs. to the bushel, on 1 2S 

 41)-100 rods. 



Cost of cultivation and seed : 



