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several seasons, and was a very dry piece. The latter fact , 

 considering the dry season, was against the raising of a larger 

 crop. 



Cost of Raising Squashes. 



To ploughing and preparing land, $6 00 



sowing seed, 50 



cost of seed, 2 00 



value of manui'e, 24 00 



hoeing twice, 5 00 



harvesting and marketing, 25 00 



Total, $62 50 



Amount of Crop. 



Two tons, at $37.50 per ton, $75 00 



One and one-half tons, at $20 per ton, 30 00 



Three tons, at $15 per ton, 45 00 



One-half ton, at $10 per ton, 5 00 



Value of crop, $155 00 



Cost of raising, 62 50 



Net profit, $92 50 



Statement of Daniel Carleton. 



Onions. — The half-acre on which my onions grew was 

 divided into two pieces by your committee, — one piece of 

 forty-one rods, and one of thirty-nine rods. On the first piece, 

 the crop of 1874 was onions. Barn-cellar manure, at the rate 

 of about twenty-five loads, and Cumberland superphosphate, 

 at the rate of half a ton per acre, were used. On the second 

 piece the crop and manure for 1874 were the same as on the 

 first. In 1875, the crop on both sides was onions; the first 

 piece was manured with Cumberland superphosphate alone, 

 at about twelve hundred pounds per acre. The second piece 

 was manured with barn-cellar manure alone, at about thirty 

 loads per acre. For the crop of 1876, the first piece was 

 manured with about twenty-five loads of thirty bushels each 

 per acre, being a compost of meadow muck, and cattle, horse 

 and hog manure, ploughed in, in the fall of 1875. The yield 

 on this piece was 158 bushels and a fraction over. 



