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dred and ninety bushels of onions, of large size and excellent 

 quality. The land is elevated, with generally a southern ex- 

 posure, and upon about two-thirds of it a crop of onions had 

 been raised last year ; on the remainder this was the first crop 

 of this vegetable. The cost of producing this crop was as fol- 

 lows : — 



Compost manure, (3-4 stable manure mixed with 1-4 



night soil,) 2 1-2 cords at $5 . 

 200 bushels leached ashes at 6 1-2 cents, . 

 Two pounds of seed valued at 

 Labor valued at . 



Value of crop as above, 390 bushels, at 40 cents, 

 From which deduct cost of production, 



Leaving a net profit of . . . . $97 50 



Danvers, Nov. 13//?, 1851. 



Richard P. Waters^s Statement. 



I offer for premium a crop of carrots, raised on one hundred 

 and twenty square poles of land. By careful measurement, 

 the product was four hundred and forty-two baskets ; a basket 

 weight sixty-four pounds, and amounting to more than fourteen 

 tons, and making about nineteen tons to the acre. The soil 

 was a mixed dark and yellow loam ; had been fenced off from 

 the pasture the year before, and planted to squashes and corn 

 fodder, and received but a light dressing of manure. 



The present season we manured it with three cords of barn- 

 yard manure, the scrapings of the yard after we had finished 

 our planting, and ploughed it in, the latter part of May. It 

 was sowed on the second of June, the rows eighteen inches 

 apart, with one pound of orange and one quarter pound of horn 

 carrot seed. I should think one-sixth of the orange seed failed 

 to come up, and on these vacant spots we set out cabbages. 

 The piece was hoed once and weeded twice by hand. The 

 carrots were harvested on the thirteenth and seventeenth of 



