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The onions were hoed out — not pulled — with a wheel hoe, 

 and the cost of pulling thus reduced one half. At your sug- 

 gestion, 4 rows were raked into 1, but I did not see that the 

 tops rotted any better than they did when spread evenly over 

 the ground. The tops were so heavy that we were obliged to 

 cut them all, and this of course, made extra expense. 



To ivhom it may concern : — 



This certifies that I have, by order of Mr. Horace F. Long- 

 fellow, this day measured and staked off one-half (J), acre of 

 Danvers Yellow Onions, grown by him, on his farm, in this 

 place, and designed to compete for the premium oflered by the 

 Essex Agricultural Society. 



William H. Osgood. 



South Byfield, Essex Co., Mass., Sept. 24, 1883. 



