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five dollars per cord on the land, which is not a high price, 

 and the fertilizer at cost, with labor of men at one dollar 

 and a half a day, and a team of a pair of horses and two 

 men at five dollars per day, cost in the silo four dollars 

 and seventy-four cents per ton notwithstanding the use of 

 the best machinery for the handling of the ensilage. 



The average cost of ensilage in the silo by accounts 

 kept by fourteen growers in Essex county ten years ago, 

 was two dollars and sixty-three cents per ton. The same 

 year from the accounts of many growers the cost varied 

 from ninety-two cents in Nebraska to four dollars per ton 

 in Lawrence and Noith Andover. 



The fact of planting the Learning corn accounts for what 

 would seem a moderate cro|) considering the amount of 

 fertilizers used, while this variety does not grow so large 

 stalks as the Southern White, it is more prolific in ears, 

 hence yielding a better balanced ration and of more feed- 

 ing value per ton, and is growing more popular among 

 prominent ensilage growers. 



POTATOES. 



The experiment with the potato crop is exceedingly in- 

 teresting and well worthy of a careful study of the method 

 of growing an early crop. Those which were dug in July 

 yielded at the rate of two hundred and forty-eight bushels 

 per acre, followed with a second crop of first class cab- 

 bages. By this system the early crop, which usually suf- 

 fers in quantity with the earliness of the planting, averaged 

 more than any of the later seeded lots. 



ONIONS. 



The product from one and three hundred twenty-five 

 one thousandths acres was one thousand four hundred and 

 thirty-four bushels of the very best quality of onions, 

 equal to one thousand and eighty-two bushels per acre. 

 A yield unprecedented in Essex county or anywhere else 

 so far as is known by the committee. 



