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STATEMENT OF DAVID WARREN. 



SWAMPSCOTT, Oct. 19, '85. 

 To the Committee on Root Crops : 



Gentlemen: — The following is the account of my Onion 

 Crop entered for premium : 



The crop in the season of 1883, was Onions. Stable 

 manure was used at the rate of eight cords to the acre. 

 The season of 1884, it was planted with potatoes ; one-half 

 was manured with "Stockbridge" manure and the other 

 half with stable manure, as I was experimenting on the 

 potatoes. The soil is a dark, sandy loam, with a white, 

 sandy sub-soil. It was plowed from four to five inches 

 deep, in the Fall of 1884. Stable manure applied at the 

 rate of seven cords to the acre in the spring of '85, and 

 harrowed in with a Randall Harrow. Did not use as much 

 manure as usual on account of putting it on with Kemp's 

 Spreader. Smoothed with a common harrow, then dragged 

 and sowed Danvers Onion seed with a Mathews Sowing 

 IMachine, at the rate of six pounds to the acre, the first 

 week in May. They were hoed with a Wheel Hoe three 

 times, and weeded twice. They were not pulled, but cut 

 out with a Wheel Hoe, and harvested the last of Septem- 

 ber. There were 26,018 lbs. of well ripened Onions, mak- 

 ing 500 18-52 bushels (at 52 lbs. to the bushel). 



THE COST OP THE CROP. 



To 34 cords stable manure, at $4.50, 



Plowing in Fall of 1884, 



Wheel harrowing in 1885, 



Harrowing and smoothing for seed, 



Three pounds seed, at $1 per lb., 



Sowing seed, 



Wheel hoeing, 



Weeding, 



Cutting out and raking crop, 



