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24,946 sq. ft., being 8166 feet more than a half acre. Cut 

 and sold 108 bbls. in Lawrence and Methuen, 3 and 2 miles 

 •distant, and put away 1886 fine heads for seed purposes. 

 Here is the account as taken from my crop book : 



Dr. 

 5 cords manure at $8.00 per cord applied, $40 00 

 1200 lbs. bone, bought and hired it ground, 12 00 

 950 lbs. Bay State phosphate, 18 05 



Plowing and harrowing, 3 00 



Planting, 4 12 



Seed, 2 00 



Cultivation, 15 00 



•Cutting and marketing at 20 cts. a bbl., 21 60 



Total cost, -$115 77 



Or. 



108 bbls. sold, $92 05 



Fodder sold and used, 6 00 



250 plants sold, 75 



1886 heads stored, worth 5 cts. each in field, 94 30 



Total receipts, $193 10 



Profit about 40 per cent., $77 38 



Receipts per acre, $338 08 



Cost per acre, 202 70 



Profit per acre, 135 38 



Amount of crop about 400 bbls. per acre, and estimated 

 weight of crop 32| tons per acre. You will notice that I 

 charge the whole amount of fertilizers to the one crop and 

 also make a liberal allowance for harvesting and market- 

 ing, believing that it is just as well to figure that I get fair 

 pay for fertilizers and labor as to make out a tremendous 

 profit and leave the impression that I do the work for noth- 

 ing. Interest and taxes I have omitted for the land is 

 certainly benefitted to that small amount. 



The onion crop is another of our standard money crops, 

 there being as many as 175 acres grown in Danvers alone, 



