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I have sold about 400 bushels at an average of seventy 

 cents per bushel. The cost is as follows : 



Crop of onions. J^>- 



5 cords of manure at 16, ^30 00 



Ploughing, 1 horse and man, ^ day, 1 50 



Bushing and dragging, man and horse, ^ day, 1 50 

 Sowing seed one-half day, 75 



Hoeing five times, 3 75 



Weeding four times, boy labor 16 days, 12 00 



Cutting up and raking out, 1 day, 1 50 



Picking up, topping and marketing, 5c. per bush., 28 20 

 Interest and taxes on land, 6 00 



3i lbs. seed at 81.20, 4 50 



Cr. 

 By 564 bushels onions at 70 cts., |394 80 



Profit on crop, 305 10 



Respectfully submitted, 



John H. George. 



I hereby certify that I measured the land on which grew 

 the crop of onions entered by John H. George of Methuen, 

 with the Essex Agricultural Society and it measured 24,000 

 square feet. 



I. H. Laney. 



STATEMENT OF JAMES MANNING, TOPSFIELD, ONION CROP. 



I had on the half acre of land entered for premium, 342 

 bushels of onions of 52 pounds to the bushel. 



I put three cords of stable manure on the half acre and 

 ploughed it in four inches deep, sowed the seed the 23rd 

 day of April, at the rate of six pounds to the acre. 



Dr. 

 To three cords manure at $6.00, il8 00 



Cost of seed, three pounds, 9 00 



Ploughing, 1 75 



Sowing seed, 75 



Cost of weeding three times, 15 00 



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