123 



this locality, it may be assumed that their value for milch cows 

 can be safely put at six dollars per ton. This vvould give 



$432 00 

 Less expense of cultivating, 127 60 



$304 40 



Interest on cost of tile drains and value of land and build- 

 ings, with wear of farm-tools, &c., should be deducted. But 

 with all fair allowances, the crop is a profitable one. 



The piece of land on which my beet crop was grown meas- 

 ures 91 yards by 53 17-91, which, if my figures are correct, 

 give 43,570 square feet, or a trifle over an acre of ground. 



Statement of Justin Noyes. 



Statement concerning a crop of onions raised by Justin 

 Noyes of Newbury, in the year 1879. 



The half acre of ground, on which was raised the crop of 

 onions I have entered for premium, has been planted with on- 

 ions for the two years preceding the present, with the excep- 

 tion of about six rods, which has been planted with corn, and 

 has been manured with about sixteen loads (30 bushels each) 

 barn-yard manure each year. It is a clay loam of fair quality. 

 In the fall of 1878, about sixteen loads (30 bushels) of barn- 

 yard manure was ploughed in about six inches deep. The first 

 of May the ground was harrowed with Randall harrow, brush- 

 ed and raked and sown with two pounds of the Danvers Yel- 

 low Onion seed. The crop was hoed four times and weeded 

 three times. The crop was harvested about the first of Octo- 

 ber, and measured four hundred and forty-six and one-half 

 bushels. The cost of cultivation is estimated as follows : — 



Amount carried forward $42 50 



