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A friend made the remark to me a short time since, that he 

 had learned this season more than ever before the importance 

 of hoeing at the right time, as he expressed it, or when the 

 plants were large enough to work among, and pointed out to 

 me where he quit hoeing a crop to attend to other work and 

 did not get an opportunity to finish the piece until one week 

 later ; the difference in the quality and quantity of the crop 

 could be detected at a glance, the increase being much in 

 favor of the early hoeing. 



Let us bear in mind the importance of fertilizing highly, 

 thorough ploughing, careful seeding, and frequent hoeing, and 

 having done our duty by the crop, trust to nature to do the 

 rest. Respectfully submitted by 



A. T. Newhall, for the Committee. 



STATEMENT OF J. J. H. GREGORY, 



To the Committee on Root Crops : — 



Gentlemen : — The half acre of Early Round Danvers Onions 

 entered by me have been harvested, and all measured, and a 

 number of bushels weighed to determine the average weight 

 of the lot. The yield to the half acre was 340 3-5 bushels of 

 52 lbs. each. These onions were grown on one of my Middle- 

 ton farms, and was the third continuous crop on the same land. 

 The manure used for the first year was about half in value 

 each of stable manure and guano ; the second or last year I 

 have the impression that the part of the bed had the same 

 proportion of stable manure with unleached wood ashes har- 

 rowed in and guano slid in after the onions were up, and 

 again just before they bottomed. The value of the manure 

 each year was -165.00. I feel a little uncertain about this por- 

 tion of the bed, for the entire bed of three and a third acres 

 was variously treated in its different parts by way of experi- 

 ment. This year the piece on which the onions ofi'ered for pre- 

 mium were raised, with the exception of a small portion of it^ 

 was manured with 22 1-2 bushels of unleached Canada ashes, 

 which were harrowed in after the ploughing, and $30.00 worth 



