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Expense of raising- said Crop. 



Ploughing, $0 75 



Planting, ......... 25 



Thinning and transplanling, . . . . . 2 00 



Hoeing, three times, . . . . . . . 3 00 



Harvesting, ..... . . . 4 00 



Rent of land, 6 00 



Total, $16 00 



Greenfield, Nov. 20, 1852. 



Elihu Belden's Statement. 



As it is required of me that I should give you an exact 

 statement concerning the condition of the land, and the man- 

 ner in which I cultivated my onions, offered for premium, I 

 will state as follows : 



The land on which I had my onions was planted with 

 broom-corn last year. I ploughed in clover, and put on about 

 ten loads of manure per acre, which yielded about eight hun- 

 dred pounds per acre. This year I burned the stalks, and 

 raked ofl' the stubs. After ploughing, I had the soil well pul- 

 verized, by harrowing, and rolling in ten loads of manure. I 

 drilled in the onion seed with my corn planter. After the 

 second weeding I applied eighty pounds of improved super- 

 phosphate of lime. The one-fourth of an acre yielded ninety 

 bushels of onions. 



East Whately, Oct. 20, 1852. 



Sheep. 



A patron of your society, at a table talk two years ago, by a 

 slip of the tongue, gave us the following axiom, viz.: " That 

 he who made one blade of grass grow where two grew before, 

 was a public benefactor." The speaker that followed, play- 



