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Aug. 31, your committee selected and measured a square rod which 

 was cut and weighed Sept. 28th, with the following results : 



Total weight on rod 174 lbs. or 165 lbs. of merchantable onions and 

 9 lbs. of small ones, making 535 bushels per acre. The crop was sold 

 direct from the field at 35 cents per bushel. 



Credit by 507^ bush, large onions at 35c., $177 62 



27i bijsh. pickelers at 20c., 5 50 



$183 12 

 Cost of cultivation, $55 00 



manure, 22 50 



fertilizer and cotton-seed, 16 00 



" seed, 4 50 98 00 



Balance in favor of crop, $85 12 



F. 0. Williams. 



To the Committee on Field Crops of tiie Hampsiiire Agricultural Society: 



The one-half acre of onions entered for premium was grown on 

 meadow land with the " Great Eastern " fertilizer. 

 15444 lbs. or 297 bushels at 32.08 cts. a bushel, $95 28 



1400 lbs. fertilizer, $21 00 



21 lbs Seed, Yellow Globe, 2 50 



Cost of labor, 26 50 50 00 



Profit. $45 28 



Geo. L. Comins. 



To the Committee on field crops of the Hampshire Agricultural Society : — 

 You here find a statement of the half acre of onions entered for pre- 

 mium in 1896 : 



The soil on which they were grown was strong sandy loam in a good 

 state of cultivation and fertility. The crop was preceded by a crop of 

 potatoes in 1895, then two years in grass the potatoes receiving an 

 application of manure plowed under and some other application of 

 which I cannot tell. As to the present crop it was planted as soon as 

 the land could be worked, having been plowed last autumn, was planted 

 with yellow globe Danvers seed from the Grange store grown by 

 " Rice," as I suppose. 



