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ral years. The manure was partly barn yard and partly 

 slaughter house manure, was not composted. One side of 

 the lot was manured entirely with the slaughter house manure, 

 and on the other side the barn yard manure was thought to 

 be rather too scattering and some small heaps of the slaughter 

 manure were put in to fill up. The manure was ploughed in, in 

 the Spring. The ground was not harrowed, but it was brush- 

 ed over, and then raked by hand. The seed was then sown. 

 One pound of the common yellow onion seed was sown first 

 on the lightest part of the land, where the barn yard manure 

 was put ; then one pound of Danvers seed entirely on the 

 slaughter manure, and then the lot was finished with a mixed 

 seed of Danvers and yellow onion seed. 



The seed was sown the 5th of May. The product was 

 127 bbls of Danvers, 125 of the common and 47 of the 

 mixed seed. Perhaps, I ought to say that no account was 

 made of the unripe and rotten onions, of which there were several 

 bushels. The product was rather in favor of the mixed seed, 

 but I attribute this to the land, as it was moister and was not 

 molested at all with the worms. The Danvers had the next 

 best chance, and they were ripe some days sooner than the 

 others. There were also taken onions for the use of two 

 families during the summer, and 30 bunches were sold before 

 harvesting. In regard to measure, I say that they were 

 measured in a basket, and that of 100 baskets one basket was 

 taken out and the rest were taken to market and weighed, 

 making 102 bushels and 18 pounds, 57 1-2 pounds being a 

 bushel. If the remainder, which were barreled, overun at the 

 same rate, there would have been over 340 bushels. 



EXPENSE OF CROP. 



Four cords manure . . . _ 



Spreading manure and ploughing - - - 



Fitting the land and sowing _ - _ 



Weeding five times - - _ _ 



Harvesting, topping &c. - - _ 



Hauling to market - _ - _ 



Interest on land - _ , _ 



$64 00 



