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STATEMENT OF JOHN H. GEORGE OF METHUEN, ON 

 ONION CROP. 



Crop of 1884 was potatoes, manured 6 cords to the acre. 

 1885, potatoes, manured 4 cords to the acre broadcast, 

 with 400 lbs. fertilizer to acre in drill. Soil, peat -mead- 

 ow, not ploughed for two years, cultivated twice, brush 

 harrowed twice, dragged ; cost of preparation, 1-2 day one 

 man and one horse, $1.50. Went over it twice with a 

 Kemp manure spreader, putting on 8 cords of compost to 

 the acre, worth $4 a cord -on the land. The seed was 

 sown April 14th, 4 1-2 lbs. to the acre of Yellow Danvers, 

 bought of Charles W. Mann of Methuen, at a cost of $3.50 

 per lb. ; cost of seeding, 1-2 day's work, 1 man, 75 cts. ; 

 hoed with a wheel hoe 5 times, 2 1-2 days' work, one 

 man, $3.75; weeded three times, 6 days' work for one 

 boy, $6.00; harvested in September; cost of harvesting, 

 5 cts. per bushel ; yield 545 bushels measured ; basket 

 even full weighs 52 lbs. 



RECAPITULATION . 



Dr. 



Balance, $421.38* 



