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In view of the comparatively little care required in keeping sheep, 

 the safety of the business and the possibility of large profits, we 

 hope that the industry will become more generally followed in the 

 section. To this end our Agricultural Society can do much in its 

 awards at the local fair, and still more by awakening an interest at 

 the farmers' institutes. Since I have known the society not a single 

 institute has been held in the interest of the sheep industry. Would 

 it not be a wise thing to give sometime in the near future at, least a 

 part of one of our institute meetings to the interests of this important 

 branch of husbandry ? 



Respectfully submitted, 



F. S. Cooley, 

 Chairman of Committee on Sheep. 



REPORT ON ONIONS. 



FIRST PREMIUM. 



Crop of A. E. Pierce entered for premium. 



The land on which this crop grew is the best river intervale, it has 

 produced onions for the last three or four years with the application 

 of commercial fertilizer. This season there was applied 



One ton of Canada wood ashes, $12 00 



800 lbs. Chittenden's fertilizer, 16 00 



Plowing, fitting and putting on fertilizer, 6 00 



Cultivating and weeding, 9 00 



Harvesting and carrying to depot, 25 00 



Total cost of crop including seed, $4.50, 



Credit by 223 bu. large onions at 75c. 

 By 27 bu. small onions at 35c. 



Balance in favor crop. 



SECOND PREMIUM. 



Half-acre grown by F. O. V/illiams of Sunderland. 



The ground on which tlie onions grew has produced that crop for 

 the past 15 years and comi)rises of about three-fourths of an acre. 

 The field has received a light dressing of barn-yard manure each 



