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$5. Second premium, to David Warren, Swampscott, 

 for crop cabbages. 

 $10. First premium, to Horatio G. Herrick, Lawrence, 

 for crop carrots. 

 $5. Second premium, to 0. K. Ordway & Son, West 

 Newbury, for crop carrots. 

 $10. First premium, to Romulus Jaques, West Newbury, 

 for crop turnips. 



John M. Danforth, For the Committee. 



STATEMENT OF A CROP OF ONIONS, GROWN BY JOHN 

 H. GEORGE, OF METHUEN. 



The land on which they were grown, is peat meadow. 

 The crops of 1886 and 1887 were onions ; manure, in form 

 of compost, applied at rate of 8 cords per acre. This year 

 it had at rate of 10 cords, good horse manure and night 

 soil, per acre, ploughed in about 4 inches deep, in the fall; 

 in the spring it was harrowed, brushed, and dragged, and 

 sown with Yellow Danvers seed, 4 lbs. per acre; hoed five 

 times ; weeded three times ; harvested 372 bushels on the 

 half acre. 



CROP. 



Dr. 



To Preparation of Land, $1.50 



Manure, 5 cords at $5.00, 25.00 



Seed and sowing, 7.00 



Hoeing five times, 2.00 



Weeding three times, boy labor, 6.00 

 Harvesting and topping, at 5 cents per bushel, 18.60 



Interest and taxes on land, 6.00 



$70.10 

 Cr. 

 By 372 hush, onions (sold early) at 90c, average 



price per bushel, $334.80 



70.10 



Balance, $264.70 



See Note next page. 



