84 



Cost of three ploiighings, $3.50 

 Cost of liarrowing and removing Avitcli-grass, Avitli 



wliich the field abounded, 2.00 

 .Vpplied in drills, six loads of manure, one-third barn- 

 yard manure and two-thirds muck, 7.00 

 One-half pound of seed, cost, 45 

 Sowing with seed-sower, cost, 75 

 Cultivated once, cost, 40 

 Cost of weeding twice, tln-ee days' work, a $2 per day, G.OO 

 (Vist of carting into cellar, 3.50 

 Cost of topping, 2.00 



Total cost of culti\ating and liarvesting crop on 



one lialf.acre, $25.60 



Amount of crop 303 1-3 Imshels, at GO lbs. per bushel. 



IIamiltox, Oct. 2<Sth, 1870. 



This is to certify tliat I measured off half an acre of land 

 on the field of turni2:)S which Mr. Thomas Sanders has entered 

 for premium. Wm. A. Browxe, Surveyor. 



To the Committee on Koot Crops. 



STATEMENT OF JOSEPH ILSLEY. 



Statement concerning a crop of Onions raised l)y Josepli 

 Ilsley, in the town of Newbury : 



The crop of 1868 Avas j^art corn and part beans, manured 

 Avith five cords of barn-yard manure per acre. Croj) of 1869 

 onions, manured Avith six cords of barn-yard manure per 

 acre. Soil dark sandy loam. PloAved in the fall seven inclics 

 deep ; harroAvcd tAvice, brushed and raked, and soAved Avith 

 seed-soAver a])out the 25th of April Avith Dan vers yelloAV onion 

 seed, at the rate of five pounds per acre. The ground Avas 

 hoed eight times and wed four times. The onions on the half 

 acre entered for premium Avere pulled on the 23d of September 

 and the ground hoed and raked by two men in one day ; tlie 

 topping required six days' labor ; the manure was plowed in at 



