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

 with the Essex Agricultural Society, and it measured 21,- 

 780 feet. 



Isaac H. Laney. 



Methuen, Mass, Oct. 15th, 1892. 



STATEMENT OF E. C. LITTLE, SXJPT. CEYSTAL LAKE FARM. 



The crop of mangels which I enter for premium were 

 raised on yellow loam land, quite rocky. The crop of 91 

 was ensilage corn, the land being broken up in the 

 spring and manure harrowed in. In the fall I spread on 

 about six cords per acre of coarse stable manure drawn 

 from the city, plowed it in. In the spring of '92, May 20, 

 I gave the land a good harrowing, then used a brush 

 harrow twice and picked off the rocks. I then put on 

 Bradley's fertilizer with the corn planter, it being 

 geared to use 400 pounds per acre, rows being three 

 feet apart. I then sowed the seed with Sargent's 

 machine, which sowed three lbs. of seed per acre, fol- 

 lowing the drills that I had previously made with corn 

 planter. We weeded and thinned them out twice, and 

 cultivated them eleven times. 

 Financial statement. 



To ploughing an acre of land. 



Harrowing one acre, 



Marking and putting on Fertilizer, 



400 lbs. of fertilizer, 



3 lbs. of seed. 



Weeding and thinning twice, 



Cultivating, 



Use of land. 



Sowing the seed. 



Six cords of manure, 



Pulling and storing, 



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