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Topping, 

 Harvesting, 

 Interest on land, 



Marblehead, Sept. 11, 1885. 

 I hereby certify that the land upon which grew the crop 

 of onions entered for premium by David Warren, measures 

 one-half of one acre. 



Benjamin P. Ware. 



STATEMENT OF JOHN H. GEORGE. 



To Essex Agricultural Society : — 



Statement concerning a crop of onions, raised by Mr. 

 John H. George, in the town of Methuen, 1885 : 



The crop of 1883, was onions. The manm-e used was 

 night-soil, run on the land from the cart, 7 cords to the 

 acre. The crop of 1884, was onions. The manure used 

 was part night-soil and part stable-manure composted. 

 The nature of the soil is peat-meadow, not ploughed at all ; 

 but cultivated, liarrowed with brush and tooth harrow twice 

 each way, and dragged. Cost of preparation of the soil, 

 one-half day, one man and horse, |!l.50. The manure cost 

 me nothing : but such a compost upon the ground is prob- 

 ably worth 'fl.OO per cord. The seed was planted the 24th 

 of April, sowed with Danvers Seed sower (5 lbs. to the 

 acre), of the Yellow Globe Danvers onion-seed. Cost of 

 seed, $1.25 per lb; cost of sowing, one-half day for one 

 man, 75 cents. They were cultivated by hoeing with a 

 wheel-hoe five times during the season, at a cost of one-half 

 day each time, one man. Weeded three times, costing 

 twelve days' work for one boy, at 75 cents per day. They 

 were harvested in September, by raking out with rake made 

 for the purpose. When dry, were topped and marketed. 



