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Weeding Onions, 



Pulling, Topping and Harvesting, 



22 lbs. onion seed, 



Interest and Taxes, 



$65 75 



Very respectfully, 



Horace F. Longfellow. 

 Byfield Mass., Oct. 20, 1884. 



Byfield, Sept. 22, 1884. 

 This is to certify, that on Sept. 22, 1884, I assisted Mr. 

 H. F. Longfellow in measuring one-half acre of onions 

 from his onion field, 8 x 10 rods, just one-half acre. 



J. W. Holland. 



Byfield, Mass., Oct. 17, 1884. 



I certify that I helped measure the above lot of onions, 

 and that there were 379i bushels. John Shattuck. 



Byfield, Mass., Oct. 20, 1884. 



To the Committee on Root Crops : 



Gentlemen : — The crop of potatoes which I enter for 

 premium, was raised on land of a dark, sandy clay loam, 

 of which I enter one-half acre that has had no manure but 

 phosphates for four years. Onions were raised on this land 

 in 1881 and '82, and each year the treatment was 1600 

 pounds per acre of " Standard " phosphate, applied broad- 

 cast. The crop of last year was cabbage and potatoes, and 

 was raised on 1,000 pounds, same phosphate per acre. 

 This year, '84, the land was ploughed six inches deep, 

 about the 1st of May, and drilled in rows three feet apart, 

 to the full depth, with the Whitcomb horse hoe, and the 

 phosphate, 1200 pounds to the acre, was scattered in the 

 drills, and was brushed over with a white birch immediately 

 after sowing. Two kinds of phosphates were used. Brad- 



