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The Committee wish herewith to acknowledge the hos- 

 pitality with which they were received. 



Chaeles W. Nelson, "^ 



John Barker, j 



Richard Webster, V Committee. 



William Phillips, Jr., | 



John W. Dennis, ) 



statement concerning a crop of onions raised by 

 john h. george, methuen, mass., in 1895. 



The crop of '94 was onions. The crop was fertilized 

 with five cords of coarse manure to the acre, applied in the 

 fall, and one-half ton of Stockbridge onion fertilizer, 

 applied in the spring. To the crop of '95 was applied one- 

 half ton of Stockbridge onion fertilizer. The land is a 

 peat meadow. It was ploughed in the fall, and in the 

 spring it was harrowed with a tooth harrow and brushed 

 with a birch-brush harrow : one-half ton Stockbridsfe onion 

 fertilizer was applied broadcast ; brushed again, sowed with 

 three lbs. of Yellow Globe Danvers onion seed and one- 

 fourth lb. of Southport Wliite Globe seed (from Jas. J. H. 

 Gregory, seedsman, Marblehead, Mass.) ; bed rolled with a 

 wooden roller, rows ten inches apart ; they were hoed five 

 times, weeded four times ; cut up when ripe with a circular 

 wheel hoe ; gathered in 1\ bushel crates and stored in the 

 onion house. By the help of ten boys and two men the 

 half acre was gathered and housed in four hours. The 

 yield was 481i bushels, on the half acre, of the handsomest 

 onions I ever saAV ; and while many are now selling their 

 onions for as low as 25c per bushel (as a paper before me 

 says), I have sold over 300 bushels at an average of over 

 75c per bushel. 



The account stands as follows : 



