8o 



The cost of the crop is as follows: 



Br. 



To preparing land, ploughing, harrowing, etc., $2 50 



" seed and sowing, 6 00 



" 1500 lbs. Stockbridge Onion Manure, 27 00 



" hoeing and weeding, 15 75 



" harvesting, 3 75 



" interest and taxes on hand, 3 00 



$58 00 

 Or. 

 By 261 bushels onions, at 65c., 1169 66 



Profit on one-half acre, 'flll.65. 

 Profit on one acre, $223.30. 



Respectfully submitted, 



John H. George. 



statement concerning a crop op potatoes raised 

 by john h, george, of methuen. 



The crops of 1895-1896-1897 were potatoes, this year 

 being the fourth consecutive year that potatoos have been 

 raised on the same piece of land and on the same kind of 

 manure, viz : Stockbridge Special Potato Manure. The 

 soil is peat meadow-land, and this half acre has produced 

 three first premium crops of potatoes on the Stockbridge 

 Manures. 



The land was ploughed in the spring, harrowed, brushed, 

 furrowed, and one-half ton Stockbridge Potato Fertilizer 

 applied by hand in the drill, seed dropped, covered with 

 horse hoe, cultivated twice, ridged twice, Bordeaux mix- 

 ture with Paris Green applied twice, dug by hand, mar- 

 keted from the field, and sold to a seedsman for seed pur- 

 poses. 



The yield on the half acre was 126 bushels of fine 

 potatoes. 



