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topped on the ground, and housed two or three weeks later. 

 The result was 610-|- bushels of ripe onions on an acre. 



Value of manure, estimated, ..... 



Cost of preparing ground, 



Cost of seed and sowing, 



Cost of cultivating, ....... 



Cost of harvesting and topping, .... 



1197 50 

 Statement oj J. J. H. Gregory. 

 Carrots. — The piece planted to carrots was tile-drained a year 

 ago last spring and then planted to carrots. This spring it was 

 liberally manured with a compost of muck, night soil, sea ma- 

 nure and barn manure, at about the rate of eight cords to the 

 acre ; it was ploughed about eight inches deep, and very thor- 

 oughly worked. About the middle of June it was planted to 

 the Improved Long Orange carrot, the short top variety, in rows 

 fifteen inches apart, seed being dropped at the rate of one pound 

 to the acre. The season being unpropititious, the plants aver- 

 aged thinner than was desirable. After the carrots were three 

 or four inches high, they were thinned where too thick, to three 

 inches apart, with the exception of a small portion of the bed, 

 which was overlooked. All after cultivation, was by finger 

 weeding and the slide hoe. The yield was five hundred and 

 twenty-three bushels from ninety-five rods of land, or at the rate 

 of twenty-two tons to the acre. 



Statement of J. L. Newhall. 



Mangolds. — The crop of 1867 was grass without manure ; the 

 crop of 1868 was grass without manure, on half the piece, the 

 remainder was in cabbage with manure, at the rate of four cords 

 per acre, and a handful of ashes to each hill. The land was 

 ploughed in the fall Of 1868, and again in the spring of 1869. 

 At the last ploughing, about eight cords of manure were plough- 

 ed in ; the land was then harrowed and turned into ridges three 

 feet apart, with the plough, and the seed sowed on the top of 

 ridges, four pounds of seed required for this piece. Cost of 

 seed, $1.80 ; planting, $2 ; cost of ploughing, |5 ; other prepa- 

 ration, $5 ; value of manure on land, $64. 



The piece was cultivated with horse cultivator three times, 



