95 



one and one-half tons of hay. This year we had the hay 

 weighed by request of the committee. There was two tons 

 of good herdgrass hay, and twelve hundred pounds of 

 rowen, the remainder of piece of meadow. Last year we 

 raised two hundred bushels onions and thirty-eight bushels 

 of parsnips. This year we sowed the same piece with 

 onion seed, we had a good piece started the first of tlie 

 season but the maggots thinned them out so there was only 

 fifty-three bushels raised this year, where we had onions 

 and parsnips last year. The principal cost was ditching and 

 ploughing the first time, since then we have been well paid 

 for our labor. The expense was about as follows : — 



Digging main ditch, 32 rods long, 8 feet wide, 8 



feet deep, atoOc. per rod, #16 00 



Hauling stone and filling ditch, at $2 per rod, 64 00 



Digging side ditches, 60 rods long, 8 feet deep, 12 



inches wide, at 20c. per rod, 12 00 



To cash paid for 990 feet of brick tile, two inches 



wide, at 2c. per foot, 19 80 



Ploughing with three men and one yoke of oxen, 



two days, at $7.50 per day, 15 00 



I larrowing and clearing up roots, two men and 



pair horses, two days, at $o per day, 10 00 



Hauling on gravel, two men, one pair horses, six 



days, at |5 per day, 30 00 



*166 80 

 Onion crop of 1895, 200 bushels, at 45c. per bu., $90 00 

 Parsnip crop of 1895, 38 bushels, at 75c. per bu., 28 00 

 Hay crop of 1895, one and one-half tons, at 820 



per ton, 30 00 



Onionjcrop of 1896, 58 bushels, at 55c. per bu., 28 15 



