135 



was smaller on account of it, though but htly hurt aslig 

 compared with the crop in the older onion sections of our 

 county. I believe the cause of the blight to have been the 

 exceedingly hot, and very wet weather of the month of 

 July. Here is the account kept in the crop book with this 

 half acre. 



Dr. 

 Plowing, 

 Harrowing, 



Smoothing with Meeker, 

 5 cords manure at $8, 

 800 pounds ground bone, 

 20 bushels leached ashes, 

 Applying bone and ashes, 

 Seed, 2f pounds at $3, 

 Sowing at 20 cts. per hour, 

 Hoeing, four times at 20 cts. per hour, 

 Weeding three times at 7| cts. to 15 cts. per hour, 

 Raking out. 



Topping at 5 cts. per bushel, 

 Marketing at 7 cts. per bushel, 



Total cost, 8136 43 



Or. 

 260 bushels, worth 00 cts. Oct. 1, 1239 40 



Leaving profit, 102 97 



Product per acre, 534 bushels worth, 478 80 



Expenses per acre, 272 86 



Profit per acre, 42 2-3 per cent, 205 94 



You will notice that 1 have charged 20 cts. per hour for 

 my own time in sowiug and hoeing, as I think I ought to 

 be worth at least as much at my business as a common 

 carpenter or stone layer ; the weeding is charged at just 

 what was paid for it. Interest and taxes might change 

 the above account about $10, but I think the improvement 

 of the land will cover that. This half acre shows that the 

 onion crop can still be called profitable in some places even 

 in a very bad season. 



