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Lawrin Pratt's Statement. 



The eighth of an acre upon which 1 raised my onions, is 

 a light soil and sub-soil. The crop in 1855 was onions, 

 manured with four loads of compost, (two parts meadow 

 mud and one-third horse, cow and hog manure). In 1856, 

 the crop and manure were the same as in ^55. In 1857, the 

 same amount of manure was applied, and the land was 

 plowed twice, three inches deep, and harrowed and brushed. 

 On the 8th of May I planted three-fourths of a pound of silver 

 skin onion seed. Cultivated by hoeing between the rows 

 and weeding, five times. The onions were harvested by 

 raking into rows with an iron rake, from the 1st to the 15th 

 of October. 



Cost of preparing the land and planting, $1,37 

 ** manure, 4,00 



" cultivation and harvesting, 5,87 



Product, 2580 lbs. of onions, 



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NAMES OF MEMBinS^S OMITTED IN THE lilST OF LAST YEAR. 



Putnam, Daniel, Lunenburg, 

 Works, Benton T., Fitchburg, 



XEW MEMBERS. 



ASHBURNHAM. 



Houston, Horace W. 



FITCHBURa. 



Sawtelle, John M. 

 Benjamin, Levi 

 Damon, Albert B. 

 Crehore, Warren A. 

 Sawyer, Charles B. 



LUNENBURG. 



Day, N. C. 

 Dunsmore, J. T. 

 Putnam, James. 



PRINCETON. 



Mirick, Sewall G. 



STERLING. 



Richardson, William B. 

 Loring, Maynard 

 Hey wood, Moses B. 

 Wilder, Josiah 



TEMPLETON. 



Stone, E. W. 



WESTMINSTER. 



Lerned, John K. 

 Miles, Daniel C. 



WINCH^DON. 



Baldwin, William 



