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Xote— Product per acre of Lot No. 1, 944 bushels onions, 

 Cost per acre of crop on Lot 1, 



Profit of crop per acre, on Lot 1, 



Product per acre, on Lot 2, 540 bushels onions, 



Cost per acre, of crop on Lot 2, 



Profit per acre, on Lot 2, 

 Rate of product per acre, on/both lots together, 742 bushels, 

 at 96 cents, 

 Cost per acre, of crop on both lots together, 



Profit per acre, on Lots 1 and 2 together, $577 22 



Methuen, Sept. 3, 1887. 

 This certifies that I have this day measured a tract of 

 land, having on it a crop of onions, owned by John H. 

 George, of Methuen, and entered by him, for the Essex 

 Agricultural Society's premium, and that said tract con- 

 tains one-half an acre. 



Jos. S. Howe, Surveyor. 



STATEMENT OF CHAELES W. MANN, OF METHUEN, ON 

 CABBAGE CROP. 



To the Committee on Root Crops: 



The piece of cabbage which I enter for premium, was 

 grown on the highest hill in the county, on land that was 

 planted to beans in 1885, and sowed to Hungarian in 1886, 

 only a small quantity of phosphate being used each time. 

 The land was in pasture when I bought it four years ago, 

 and has had no manure for at least ten years. The soil is 

 a deep, dark mellow loam, somewhat sprinkled with small 

 stone. 



I ploughed and harrowed June 4th, spreading on twenty 

 loans of manure before ploughing, 1200 pounds of ground 

 steamed bone, and applying 950 pounds of Tucker's Bay 

 State Superphosphate in the hill. 



The seed was planted in the hill June 8th and 9th ; cul- 



