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The onions, however, were very sound and hard, and of good 

 size, there being but few small ones and scarcely any scul- 

 lions. The cost of raising crop on the half acre was as fol- 

 lows, viz. : — 



To plowing and preparing land, $ 9.00 



To sowing seed, 1.00 



To cost of seed, • 3.50 



To Superphosphate, 8.50 



To value of manure on the land, 16.00 



To weeding live times, • 25.00 



To harvesting, 20.00 



$83.00 

 Amount of crop, 294 bushels, at 75 cents, 220.50 



Net profit, $137.50 



STATEMENT OF FRANCIS R. ARPLETON, OF IPSWICH. 



The half acre of Ruta Baga Turnips, which I enter, was a 

 part of a field of about one acre. They were planted on the 

 middle of June, in drills two feet and a half apart. The soil 

 is a heavy clay loam, thoroughly drained with tile, and has 

 been in grass for the previous years. It was ploughed last 

 Fall, and again this Spring, and thoroughly harrowed. To 

 prepare the land for the seed, trenches were made with the 

 plough, and barn-yard manure put in them, — twelve ox-cart 

 loads in all for the half acre. These were then covered by 

 the plough, making a ridge where before was a trench, and 

 rolled. Just before the trenches were covered, there was 

 sown upon the barn-yard manure a mixture of ashes, super- 

 phosphate of lime, plaster, and Brighton manure, in all six 

 bushels. The seed was put in with a hand-drill, care being 

 taken to do this immediately after the rolling. It is impor- 

 tant that the above operations should follow one another in 

 quick succession, leaving the least possible interval between 



