85 



110. First premium, to Henry A. Hay ward, Andover, for 



crop of cabbage. 

 •110. First premium, to David Warren, Swampscott, for 



crop of squash. 

 $10. First premium, to C. Moynihan, Newbury, for crop 



of ruta baga turnips. 

 0. L, Carlton, John W. Frederick, Edward A. Fuller, 

 Wilbur J. Munroe, John Perkins — Committee. 



STATEMENT OF JOHN H. GEORGE, METHUEN, CONCERNING 

 A CROP OF ONIONS RAISED 1891. 



The crop of 1889 was grass, the crop of 1890 was pota- 

 toes, manured with one ton of Stockbridge potato manure 

 to the acre, the soil is peat meadow, ploughed in the fall of 

 1890 about four inches deep. At the same time ploughed 

 in about ten cords of manure to the acre, measured as cor- 

 rectly as could be done by throwing on to the cart without 

 treading, on one-half the piece was put horse and cow 

 manure, on which had been a hog, on one-half of the rest 

 was put dry horse manure as drawn from a village stable, 

 on the other quarter (except two rods square on which no 

 manure of any kind was put) was spread cow manure 

 drawn out and spread as made ; the value of the manure 

 was probably six dollars per cord on the piece. 



The land in the spring was brushed with a brush harrow ; 

 dragged and sowed with three and three quarters pounds of 

 yellow Danvers onion seed from Peter Henderson & Co.'s 

 seed house, New York City. The seed, I was assured by 

 the firm, was tested and of good germination, and I should 

 think every seed grew, came up as fine a stand as I ever 

 saw; the maggots thinned them some on one end where the 

 onions grew to immense size, eighty of them filHng a bush- 

 el ; they were not thinned at all by hand as I make it a 

 practice not to thm onions no matter how thick they grow, 

 believing it spoils the crop to do so. The yield was 5G4 

 bushels of very fine onions on 24,000 feet of land, of which 



