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er cultivators. As a dressing for onions, I give the preference to 

 well rotted stable manure, 



JAMES P. KING. 



Danvers, October 20 th, 1847. 



DANIEL OSBORN'S STATEMENT. 

 To the Committee on Root Culture. 



Gentlemen, — I offer for a premium a crop of onions, raised from 

 one acre and thirty-two rods of land, measuring eight hundred and 

 seventy 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 us- 

 ed 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 suflBcient to bury the dressing. Between the first and 

 middle of April of the present year, the land was manured, plough- 

 ed, and prepared as usual, and a few ounces less than three pounds 

 of seed sown to the acre. The usual method of hoeing with a ma- 

 chine and weeding by hand was pursued. The crop was harvested 

 by the twentieth of September, and carefully measured in a bushel 

 basket. 



The statement of the expenditures is as follows : 



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



Spreading manure, preparing and sowing. 



Two and seven-eighths lbs of seed at $1 00 per lb, 



Hoeing, 



Weeding, 



Harvesting, 



Making an aggregate amount of, $60 3T 



All of which is respectfully submitted. 



DANIEL OSBORN. 

 Danvers, October 29th, 1847. 



