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and winter and spring rye. The onions were grown on 

 a yellow loam, on a gravel bottom, — has grown onions 

 several years previous, — was replenished with twelve 

 cords of manure ploughed in in the fall of tlie year 1840; 

 the following spring it was harrowed, and drilled in rows 

 14 inches apart, and two and a half lbs. of seed sown 

 with a machine on the same. It was weeded but once 

 by hand, but hoed several times — harvested and sold in 

 September and October — the produce of which was six 

 hundred and sixty-four bushels. 



The rye was grown on a black loam on a clay bottom ; 

 has grown potatoes three years previous — the manure 

 ploughed in ; is inclosed by itself, containing two acres 

 one hundred and six rods. The produce in 1840 was 

 two hundred bushels per acre. The manure apphed was 

 eight cords per acre. The 'ast of September, 1S40, 1 

 sowed one and a half bushels rye on one acre ; the re- 

 maining part I sowed with spring rye about the middle of 

 April. The winter grain was reaped the 20th of July, 

 and threshed widiin ten days after ; the product of which 

 was forty bushels and twenty-two quarts, independent of 

 eight quarts of small grain. The spring grain was reap- 

 ed and threshed the beginning of August ; the produce 

 was forty-two bushels and twenty-five quarts. 



Yours respectfully, 



JOHN NOYES. 



This may certify that we assisted in cultivating, mar- 

 keting, and measuring the above crop of onions, and 

 that the above statement is correct. 



GILES A. NOYES. 



JUSTIN NOYES. 



EsseXiSS. l\oi\ 16, 1841. 



Personally appeared Giles A. Noyes and Justin Noyes, 

 and made oath to the truth of the foregoing statement, 

 before me, STUART CHASE, 



Justice of the Peace. 



