114 ON ROOT CROPS. 



ground. I then employed Adam Rhodes and my son, John 

 Titconib, to measure the onions on that acre, and they made 

 seven hundred and three bushels. 



My land is a strong loam ; a part of the land has been sow- 

 ed with onions four years, and a part of it only two years. I 

 plough very shallow in the spring, and put on the ground 

 about four cords of manure to the acre. I sow a part of Dan- 

 vers seed, and a part of the Old Town seed ; get the largest 

 crop from the Old Town seed, the earliest from the Danvers seed. 



Byfield, Nov. 14th, 1851. 



ORLANDO SOUTHWICK'S STATEMENT. 



I make application for premium on a crop of Onions, from 

 land measuring one hundred and four rods, yielding three hun- 

 dred and ninety bushels of onions, of large size, and excellent 

 quality. The land is elevated, with generally a southern ex- 

 posure, and upon about two thirds of it a crop of onions had 

 been raised last year ; on the remainder this was the first crop 

 of this vegetable. The cost of producing this crop was as 

 follows : — 

 Compost manure, (3-4 stable manure mixed with 1-4 



night soil,) 2 1-2 cords at $5 00 - - $12 50 



200 bushels leached ashes at 6 1-2 cents - 13 00 



2 pounds of seed valued at - - - 3 00 



Labor valued at - - - - 30 00 



^58 05 



Value of crop, as above, — 390 bushels, at 40 cents, — $156 00 

 From which deduct cost of production - 58 50 



Leaving a net profit of - - - ,f 97 50 



Danvers, Nov. 13th, 1851. 



