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body, Mass., which yielded at the i-ate of 400 bushels per 

 acre. This crop was grown on lio^- manure, eighteen cords 

 to the acre, on a field literally covered with small stone. 

 The onions were of excellent quality but as the yield was 

 below the other two crops entered and the net profit only 

 fl37.80 per acre, j^our committee must necessarily pass 

 this crop without a premium. We trust Mr. Thomas 

 Wolloff, the enterprising manager of this farm, will try 

 again and succeed in reducing the cost of his crop and 

 increasing the 3'ield. 



A few daj^s later your committee visited the farm of W. 

 H. Jacobs, Danversport, Mass., and inspected his onion 

 and squash crops. Mr. Jacobs has a silo and keeps a good 

 sized herd of milch cows and raises a large amount of mar- 

 ket garden stuff on thirty acres of land. His onion crop 

 this year was raised on a corner lot elevated about three 

 feet above the streets that bounded it, consequently it was 

 well drained and his crop did not suffer from the exces- 

 sive rains early in the season. The land was conqjara- 

 tively free from weeds and Mr. Jacobs has shown that on 

 the right soil with proper implements it is possible to raise 

 a good ci'op at small expense. His crop of squash was 

 superior to any crop we have seen this year. This has 

 been a poor squash year but Mr. Jacobs planted on well 

 drained land and secured a maximum crop. The bulk of 

 his crop was the Warren. They colored up well and sold 

 readily, the first few barrels bringing $2.50 each. 



Our last visit was at the farm of Alvin Smith, Hamil- 

 ton, where we saw a lialf acre of Shamrock ruta bagas 

 growing on an old loamy j)asture. A handsomer crop 

 could not be asked for. The individual turnips would put 

 to shame tlie best St. Andrews turnips that come into 

 Boston market. Specimens from this field captured the 

 first prize at the fair at Peabody. Mr. Smitii told us that 

 wherever he had sold these turnips they had asked him to 



