79 



Or. 

 315 bush, onions, at 65 cents, $204 75 



Profit on i acre, $133.05. 

 Crop on one acre, 630 bush. 

 Profit on one acre, $266.10. 



N. P. Perkins. 



STATEMENT CONCERNING A CROP OP ONIONS RAISED BY 

 JOHN H. GEORGE, OF METHUEN. 



The crop of 1896 was onions, raised on the Stockbridge 

 Special Onion Fertilizer, as were also the crops of 1897 

 and 1898, one and one-half tons per acre, applied broad- 

 cast with a machine. The soil is peat meadow land. 



The land was ploughed in the fall of 1897 ; in ^he 

 spring of 1898 it was harrowed with a tooth harrow (one 

 horse), brushed with a birch brush, fifteen hundred 

 pounds of the Stockbridge Special Onion Manure spread, 

 brushed again, and sowed with 3 3-4 lbs. of Yellow Globe 

 Danvers Onion Seed, rows ten inches apart. They were 

 hoed five times, weeded four times, cut up with a circular 

 cutter, i-aked out, picked up in crates, and stored. 



This piece of land has been in onions eight years ; 

 the last fiye crops have been grown on the Stockbridge 

 Special Onion Manure. It has produced four first premi- 

 um crops, and this is the statement of the fifth. 



The past season has been too wet for my land, and the 

 consequence has been that the water drowned out about 

 one-third of the piece, so that the number of bushels har- 

 vested has been much smaller than it would have been 

 under normal conditions. 



The yield was 261 bushels of medium sized onions on 

 the half acre. I have not as yet disposed of my crop, but 

 the price in Lawrence market is 65c. per bushel. 



