115 



Cost of producing, marketing and ploughing one acre 



of land for cabbage, $4.00 



Harrowing, 1.00 



Furrowing, 1.50 



Planting, 3.00 



Six cords of manure, and spreading, 54.00 



Guano and bone dust, 10.00 



Applying and mixing same, 4.00 



Two cultivatings, 5.00 



Two hoeings, 9.00 



Loading and marketing crop, (62,100 lbs.), 114.00 



Seed, 2.00 



Interest on land, 4.00 



Total, $211.50 



Value of crop at one cent a pound for heads, 1617.15 

 Cost of raising and getting to market, 211.60 



Profit, $405.65. 



STATEMENT OP J. J. H. GREGORY, NO. 2. 



The onions I enter were raised on my farm in Danvers, the 

 farm being divided by a brook which makes the boundary 

 between that town and Middleton. The sward was broken 

 four years ago and has had successively, cabbages, potatoes 

 and onions. Last year and the year previous it was in pota- 

 toes. The crop of 1878 was manured with raw glue manure, 

 applied at the rate of eight cords to the acre, and raked into 

 the furrrow as the land was ploughed. The season was rather 

 a wet one and as the manure was very rank and the land was 

 low, almost muck in composition, I anticipated a good deal of 

 rot. To my surprise on digging the crop there were scarcely 

 any rotten potatoes, tliough once or twice when I dug into 

 them during the season, I found the tubers laying in a bed of 

 soft mud. 



I attribute the exemption from rot to the fact that there was 

 considerable lime in the glue manure, though only the quantity 



