STATEMENT ON ONIONS. 



BY ALVIN SANDERSON. 



The piece of land contained eiglity-fonr rods and had been used 

 for onions three consecutive years. Nothing but Bradley's Phosphate 

 being used, three hundred lbs. each year. The land was plowed last 

 fall, 1882. Early in the spring the ground was smoothed and two 

 lbs. Danver's onion seed, sown in drills 15 inches apart. Said land 

 was cultivated and wed four times. They were harvested ns soon as 

 ripe and sold. 



Dr. Manure, 300 lbs. phosphate, at $2.15, $6 45 



Flowing and fitting, 2 00 



Seed and sowing, 3 00 



Cultivating and harvesting, 25 00 



$36 45 

 Cr. 370 bushels onions at 46 cents, $170 20 



