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the time of plowing in the fall ; I also spread on about eight 

 or ten bushels of ashes (on a })art of the ground) just before 

 the seed was sown, but could see no diffei'ence in the crop on 

 that account. 



Previous to 18()(! this piece of land Avas too wet for profita- 

 ble cultivation. In the fall of that year I underdrained it Avith 

 tiles, and it has since Avell repaid the cost. 



Value of manure on half acre, estimated, $30.00 



Cost of plowing, t^c, G.OO 



Cost of seed and planting, 11.00 



Cost of cukivation, 23.00 



Cost of harvesting, 20,00 



ifeDO.OO 

 The crop on the half-acre measured eight cart loads and 11 

 measured bushels, one load of which weighed (l)y J. A. Lunt, 

 at his scales, in Xewbury,) 2373 lbs., making the whole 

 amount to 37(5 bushels, or at the rate of 752 Imshels per acre. 

 I witnessed the measurement of J . Ilslcy's onions ; there 

 were eight carts full of equal size and eleven measured bushels. 



George P. (tOodwix. 



In September, 1870, I measured for J. Ilsley half acre of 

 onion ground, the crop to be entered for premium. 



Paul M. Ilsley. 



STATEMENT OF FRANCIS LITTLE. 



Statement concerning a crop of Carrots raised by Mr. Fran- 

 cis Little, in the town of Xewbury, in 1870 : 



The ground on which this crop was raised was planted the 

 two previous years with Indian corn, yielding not over forty 

 bushels shelled corn to the acre. Applied about thirty loads 

 common barn-yard manure. The soil is a coarse, dark, sandv' 

 loam, with sandy sub-soil. It was plowed about the 20th of 

 May ten inches deep, after having spread on about fifteen loads 

 manure. Harrowed with brusli harrow and smoothed off witli 

 hand rake. 



