ROOTS AND VEGETABLES. 



95 



fertile enough for plant-food in the early season, I spread on 

 the top and harrowed in six hundred ponnds of Cumberland 

 Superphosphate to three-fourths of an acre. We then raked 

 the land smooth, and on the 13th of iNIay sowed, with seed- 

 sower. Yellow Danvers Onion seed, at the rate of five pounds 

 to the acre. Half the seed was new and half one year old. 

 I think the new seed did the best. We hoed and Aveeded the 

 bed four times, and weeded once when the onions were large. 

 The crop was harvested in this manner : — We pulled four 

 rows, threw them on the bed, then hoed the space and raked 

 the weeds clean ; we pulled four rows more and threw them 

 on the clear space ; hoed and raked as before, and so on through 

 the whole bed. 



Part of the onions were topped on the bed, the remainder 

 carted to barn to be topped in unfavorable weather. The 

 topping can be done much quicker on the bed if the weather 

 is favorable. 



Cost of raising croj) on Jialf an acre. 



15 loads manure at $2.50, .... 



300 lbs. Cumberland superphosphate at 3 cents, 

 Ploughing, ...... 



Harrowing, ...... 



Kaking, ....... 



Sowing seed, ...... 



Hoeing and weeding, ..... 



Pulling and topping, ..... 



Carting to barn, ...... 



Barrels, ....... 



Barrelling, ...... 



Carting to station, ..... 



Use of land, ...... 



Storing, ....... 



Amount of crop, 423 bushels to half acre or 147 

 bbls., at $3.50, 



$168 00 



514 50 



$346 50 



Net profit, ...... 



The above statement is made by estimation, except the 

 amount of crop, which was measured by David J. Woodman. 



