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kets, the heaviest weighing 59, the Hghtest 57 lbs. I call them 

 57, making 440,44 3-4—50 bushels (22,044 3-4 lbs.) About 

 one-half the land has been in onions three years ; the remain- 

 der one year, except about eight rods on which onions have 

 not been sown until last spring. The crop last year was 

 Very much injured by the grub worm, and considerable of 

 the ground was set over with cabbage. The land is a dark, 

 sandy loam, and was not ploughed at all last spring. It 

 was liberally manured with a compost of meadow muck and 

 stable manure, and about five bushels of salt and five bushels 

 of wood-ashes to the acre, and well worked with the culti- 

 vator, harrow and hand-rake. The seed (Danvers yellow) 

 was sown about the first of May, three and a half pounds 

 to the acre. The ashes was sown after the seed. 



I have not kept an accurate account of the cost of manure 

 and labor on this piece of land, but suppose it has cost me 

 as much as the same would cost any other man, say seventy- 

 five dollars for manure, labor and interest on land. My crop 

 is sold at sixty cents per bushel, delivered at the Depot, one 

 and a half miles from my place of residence. 



Byfield, November 7th, 1853. 



This is to certify that I assisted in harvesting, topping, 

 measuring and weighing the above lot of onions, and that 

 the above statement is correct. 



Byfield, November 7th, 1853. Edwin Vance. 



Newbury, November 7, 1853. 



I hereby certify that I measured the ground cultivated as 

 above stated, and it contains one-half acre, and no more. 



Geo. W. Adams. 



Ephraim Brown's Statement. 

 Statement of quantity of onions, Ruta Baga turnips and 

 carrots, raised on one-half acre of land, to each crop, viz: 

 407 bushels onions, 50 lbs. to the bushel. 

 460 " turnips, 60 " " " 

 41,400 lbs. carrots, or 20 tons 2 qtrs. and 400 Ibs^ 



