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with Acme harrow, and raked by horse power, by the 

 Meeker rake, an implement, which by actual test on my 

 land, will, with a horse and one man, do the work of 

 twenty men, and do it on land free from large stones, 

 better than they can do it. The land was planted by a 

 Matthews seed drill, the latter part of April, with four 

 pounds per acre of Early Round Danvers Onion seed. 

 It was slid through and hand weeded four times. The crop 

 was harvested in the latter part of kSeptember, and the crop 

 on the half acre was 360| bushels of well-ripened onions 

 of fine quality. 



The expense of raising the crop was as follows : 

 Preparing the ground, -f I 00 



Seed, " 6 00 



Sowing of Seed, 50 



Four Slidings aud Weedings, 10 00 



Fertilizers, viz., 350 lbs. Ames' Phosphate, ) 

 50 " Dried Blood, 1 



200 " Spoilt Cotton Seed, > 14 62 

 150 •' Muriate of Potash, | 

 150 " Standard Guano, j 

 Harvesting, 16 00 



Topping, 10 82 



Interest on land, 4 50 



Total cost of production, $69 44 



The fertilizers were harrowed in before planting, except- 

 ing the guano, which was spread on the surface just before 

 the onions began to bottom, and worked in by a slide hoe 

 at the last sliding. J. J. H. Gregory. 



This is to certify that I measured a piece of onions for J. 

 J. H. Gregory, containing eighty (80) square rods, yielding 

 360| bushels. William B. Carleton. 



Middleton, Oct. 29, 1884. 



To the Committee on Root Crops: 

 Gentlemen : — 



The half acre of onions which I enter for your in' 



