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at the present time. I shall cut the heads off and remove 

 them to the south side of a fence, setting stump down on 

 the grass one deep, and cover with hay or leaves, and hold 

 for higher price, feeding all cracked ones to cows. There 

 is no crop better for making milk than cabbage, and if 

 fed right after milking, there is no danger of affecting the 

 taste of the milk. 



The cost of the crop per acre I make as follows : — 



Plowing and preparing land, ilO 00 



Seed and sowing, 3 00 



Cultivating and hoeing, 25 00 



20 loads manure, 40 00 



One-half ton superphosphate, 15 00 



STATEMENT CONCERNING A CROP OF ONIONS RAISED BY 

 JOHN H. GEORGE, IN THE TOWN OF METHUEN, 1901. 



The crop of 1900 was potatoes. The manure used waS' 

 four cords stable manure and one ton fertilizer per acre^ 

 The soil is peat meadow. For the onion crop the land was 

 prepared by ploughing in in the fall of four cords horsa 

 manure mixed with night soil. The seed was yellow 

 globe Danvers sowed six pounds per acre, sowed the 19th! 

 of April. They were hoed four times, weeded three 

 times, harvested by being cut out with wheel hoe, picked 

 up into crates, and housed. 



