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broadcast over the piece, following immediately after 

 with the slide hoe. Within a week the results were as 

 striking as they were interesting, the onions began to 

 rally, they had evidently begun to find the new supply 

 of food, and from that time onward through tlie season, 

 they kept on a vigorous and healthy growth and instead 

 of being as it was, one of the poorest pieces among my 

 twelve acres, it became one of my very best, and at the 

 close of the season well fulfilled its promise by giving in 

 a crop of over five hundred bushels of handsome onions 

 to the acre. I think you will agree with me in finding 

 in this successful experiment a good illustration of one 

 characteristic of fertilizers, wherein from their very na- 

 ture they can be used on growing crops in a way that it 

 would be practically impossible to use barn manure ; and, 

 secondly, a demonstration that our crops may be changed 

 from a promise of failure into a success by an intelligent 

 application of an additional supply of plant food adapted 

 to their need. 



James J. H. Gregory. 



REPORT ON THE EXHIBITION OF THE ESSEX 

 COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY. 



Delegated by the State Board of Agriculture to attend 

 the seventy-first exhibition of the Essex County Agricultu- 

 ral Society, I arrived at Lawrence on Tuesday morning, 

 Sept. 22d, and readily found my way to the Fair grounds 

 by the street cars passing conveniently close to the exhibi- 

 tion, which was holden on a large and reasonably smooth 

 field by the border of the McFrimac, directly across which 

 arose great piles of buildings, resonant with the hum of 

 machinery ; how significantly close agriculture and manu- 

 factures, the glory of New England, seemed to be, and 

 what a train of thought was started only to be switched 

 off into the stock yard. 



The space was ample, more than enough to accommo- 



