75 



Gr. 



By 100 1)U. parsnips sold, 



127 bu. parsnips in cellar, at 70c. 



Profit, 



Value of crop per acre, 

 Cost " '' " 

 Profit " " " " 



This certifies that I have measuied the piece of ground 

 on which was raised the crop of parsnips by F. A. Rus- 

 sell, and found it to contain 96 rods. 



N. D. Perry. 



STATEMENT CONCERNING A CROP OF ONIONS RAISED BY 

 JOHN H. GEORGE OF METHUEN. 



The cro]3 of 1895 was onions ; the manure used was the 

 Stockbridge Onion Fertilizer. The crop of 1896 was 

 onions, the manure was Stockbridge Onion Fertilizer, one 

 and one-half tons per acre. The soil is peat meadow. It 

 was not ploughed at all in 1896, was harrowed with spike- 

 tooth harrow, brushed with birch brush . harrow, dragged 

 and sowed with Danvers Yellow Globe onion seed, six 

 pounds per acre, rows ten inches apart. The manure 

 used in 1897 was Stockbridge Onion Fertilizer, it being 

 the fourth year since the land had received any other 

 kind of manure, and has produced three first premium 

 crops on that alone. 



