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fecting a sale of his entire crop at seventy-five cents per bushel. 

 It appears Mr. Merrill has placed the value of his crop grown 

 on half an acre at a much lower figure, sixty cents per bushel. 

 And as the cost or whole expense in raising the two crops varies 

 but two dollars, it leaves for Mr. Burnham nearly forty dollars 

 more income than Mr. Merrill will receive providing he effects 

 a sale at the price the statement presents. 



Mr. Merrill applied to his half acre four cords manure, com- 

 posed of night-soil, meadow muck, and barn yard manure val- 

 ued at $40.00. Mr. Burnham applied to his half acre four cords 

 common barn manure at time of sowing. In June, after the 

 crop had started, applied two barrels of Brighton Blood Fer- 

 tilizer at a cost of $10. Value of barn manure, $28, making a 

 difference of only $2 in value of manure used by both parties. 



The Committee have taken the liberty to award to Mr. Greg- 

 ory a premium for his excellent crop of onions of quite a differ- 

 ent variety, and would suggest that in the future the Society of- 

 fer a premium oa several different varieties as we do on different 

 breeds of cattle, We think a premium ought not to be witheld 

 from any one who will undertake the laborious task of growing 

 a root crop, and furnishing to the Society a written statement of 

 his mode and manner of growing the same, providing his crop 

 merits it. And as the statements are generally published in the 

 Transactions, we think the same cannot be otherwise than valu- 

 able to many for future use. 



The Ruta Baga crops entered by Messers Merrill of Danvers 

 and Manning of Topsfield, differed but little in quality, although 

 some in quanity, Mr. Manning's were of the London Swede 

 variety, very uniform in size, solid and having little top, growing 

 mostly underground. The mode of cultivation by the two parties 

 differ not a little, Mr. Manning harvested from his ground a 

 crop of English hay about the 22nd. of June or previous to 

 plowing for his crop, but his statement does not mention that 



