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crops, and a comparison of the several statements, taking 

 into account the cost and quality, as well as quantity of 

 each crop, would award as follows : — 



To James J. H. Gregory, Marblehead, onions, first 

 premium, $10. 



To Horace F. Longfellow, Newbury, onions, second 

 premium, $5. 



To Horace F. Longfellow, Newbury, potatoes, first pre- 

 mium, $10. 



To Daniel Carleton, North Andover, cabbages, first 

 premium, $10. 



To Sidney F. Newman, Newbury, squashes, first pre- 

 mium, $10. 



Considering the season, and the low price of all kinds 

 of vegetable and root crops, we are surprised at the lai'ge 

 yield and very low cost of production ; and would recom- 

 mend that all the statements be printed in the Transactions, 

 as being thoroughly practical and much more valuable than 

 anything your committee might be able to say. Commit- 

 tee. — T. C. Thurlow, George A. Randall, Allen Rowe, 



Warren M. Cole, B. F. Huntington. 



STATEMENT RELATING TO A CROP OF ONIONS, BY J. J. H. 



GREGORY, MARBLEHEAD. 



The crop raised on the same piece of land in 1882-83 

 was onions. The manure each season being a cord of 

 compost of night-soil, barn and rockweed manure per acre, 

 ploughed in, and five hundred pounds of Peruvian^Guano, or 

 its equivalent in value in muriate of potash, phosphate of lime 

 and meat. The soil is a strong loam, on the top of a hill 

 of land, which abounded in large boulders before it was 

 cleared up. The land is in part, underdrained. The land 

 was not ploughed either in fall or spring, but was pulver- 

 ized by first passing Reynold's " Monarch Pulverizer," 

 over it twice lengthways, and once across, then harrowed 



