98 



"were measured in the crates which the committee saw, 10 

 •crates topped, and the lot reckoned by their shrinkage. I 

 have been offered 80 cents per bushel, but prefer to hold 

 them for advance. 



The debit and credit account is as follows : 

 To ploughing, 



To harrowing and fertilizing, 

 To seed. 

 To sowing. 

 To hoeing live times. 



To weeding three times, two boys three days, 

 To four cords coarse horse manure. 

 To one cord good manure, 

 To one-half ton Stockbridge onion fertilizer, 

 To harvesting and storing. 

 To topping and marketing, at 5 cents per bush., 



To Onion Oroj), Credit. 

 By 448 1-2 bushels, at 80 cents. 



Profit on half-acre, $276 40 



Profit per acre, 552 80 



Respectfully submitted, 



John H. George. 

 Methuen, Mass., Oct. 5th, 1894. 

 I hereby certify that I measured the land on wdiichgrew 

 the crop of onions entered for premium by John H. 

 •George, and it contained one-half acre. 



(Signed) Walter Smith. 



•-STATEMENT OF ONION CROP RAISED ON ONE-HALF ACRE 

 BY J. H. LUNT OF NEWBURY. 



Newbury, Mass., Oct. 29, 1894. 

 The land was formerly in grass, and was planted with 

 ^potatoes in 1891 and 1892. In 1893 it was sown Avith 



