124 



Amount brought forward, $42 50 



Hoeing and weeding, 25 00 



Harvesting, 12 00 



Topping, 12 00 



Total expense of cultivation, $91 50 

 446i bushels at $1 per bu., $446 50 

 Cost of cultivation as above, 91 50 



Profit, $355 00 



This is to certify that I measured one-half acre of land for 

 Justin Noyes, on which grew the onions he entered for premi- 

 um, and find it correct. Alfred Poor. 



FAIRBANKS' STANDARD SCALES. 



Two loads of Onions from J. Noyes, weighed October 4, 

 1879. Gross, 4430, 3410 pounds ; Tare, 1695, 1230 pounds ; 

 Net, 2,785, 2,180 pounds. 



Horace Plumer, Weigher. 



Statement of J. J. H. Gregory. 

 The land on Marblehead Neck, where my piece of Cabbage 

 was grown this season, was planted in 1877 to onions, (I have 

 been informed, in both 1877 and 1878,) but being very handy 

 to the sea shore received so heavy a crop of rotten kelp that 

 the seed failed to grow, when the party then carrying it on 

 planted it to a late crop of potatoes. The soil is a strong, 

 gravelly loam. My team gave it a thorough ploughing, about 

 seven inches deep, towards the close of May, when it was well 

 harrowed and marked off into hills four feet apart. In each 

 of these hills a heaping handful of the best guano was spread, 

 being made to cover a surface of about a square foot, when it 

 was very thoroughly worked into the soil, the rate being 650 

 pounds per acre ; the land being in good condition, this was 

 the only manure used. The guano cost me, delivered, $20.50. 

 The seed was planted about May 20. The crop received three 

 cultivatings and three hoeings. The seed used was of the 



