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favorable conditions, onions be planted closer, and better 

 results obtained. 



The Committee have inspected all the crops that were 

 entered and after examining the statement of each crop, 

 recommend the following awards : 



I|10. First premium to John H. George, Methuen, for 

 crop of onions. 

 '^5. Second premium to Kent & Marsh, Newburyport, 



for crop of onions. 

 ••^S. Second premium to Crystal Lake Farm, Haverhill, 

 J. J. Marsh, Proprietor, E. C. Little, Superin- 

 tendent, for crop of mangolds, 

 •f 10. First premium to Maurice H. Connor, West New- 

 bury, for crop of cabbage. 

 f5. Second premium to Dr. J. G. McAllister, Methuen, 

 for crop of cabbage. 

 Frederick A. Russell, William S. Phillips, Jr., Albert 

 Emerson — Committee. 



STATEMENT OF A CROP OF ONIONS RAISED BY JOHN H. 

 GEORGE, OF METHUEN, ESSEX CO., MASS. 



The land on which the crop was raised was Peat Mead- 

 ow. The land in 1891 was in grass, in 1892 there was a 

 crop of potatoes raised on it, manured with chemical ma- 

 nure one ton per acre. In the fall, after the potatoes were 

 dug, there was applied about eight cords per acre of gravel 

 into which had been run ten one horse loads of night-soil. 

 Tt laid on top of the ground all winter. In the spring it 

 was ploughed in, the ground was harrowed, brushed and 

 sowed with 3i pounds of Yellow Globe Danvers onion 

 seed. The rows were a scant foot apart, they were hoed 

 five times, weeded thoroughly three times. They were 

 liarvested and put into the onion house in ten hours by 

 one man and four boys. The crop was five hundred and 



