84 



Cr. 

 By 410 3-5 bush, of onions at 75c., 1307 95 

 Balance, $235 05 



My crop is not sold but I could sell today at prices 



above. 



Kent & Marsh. 



Newburyport, Sept. 2, 1892. 

 This* is to certify that I have measured the onion land 

 for Mr. Kent and find it to contain 87 rods and 26 yards. 



Submitted by 



C. W. Nelson. 



REPORT OF A CROP OF ONIONS, RAISED AND ENTERED 

 BY JOHN H. GEORGE OP METHUEN, 1892. 



The crop last year was onions, manured with about 10 

 cords of manure per acre. The crop of 1890 was grass, 

 this year it was manured part of it with night soil and 

 gravel, part with horse and cow manure drawn from the 

 barn cellar, part with a fertilizer composed of 1,000 lbs. dis- 

 solved from 300 muriate of potash and 200 lbs. nitrate of 

 soda applied at the rate of 2,000 lbs. per acre, and on a 

 small piece 2 feet of hen manure was put ; the land was 

 prepared in the usual way, the manure applied in the Fall, the 

 fertilizer in the Spring, as was also the hen manure. The 

 ground was ploughed, harrowed, brushed and dragged, and 

 seed sown at the rate of 5 lbs. per acre, the kind used 

 being the Southport Yellow Globe from Peter Henderson 

 of New York City. The seed came up splendid and had 

 the maggots let them alone I should have had an enormous 

 crop; as it was eaten quite badly in spots, the crop was only 

 a medium one, but the quality is first-class in every re- 

 spect. I have entered it not so much because I thought I 

 had a large crop, but as an interesting experiment with dif- 

 ferent kinds of manure. The crop where the hen manure 

 was ap[Jied was poorest of the lot, that where night soil 



