99 



To Harvesting and topping, at 5 cents per bushel, $15.60 



Interest and taxes on land, 6.00 



$62.35 



Cr. 



By 312 bush, onions at 80 cents, $249.60 



NoTE-Crop per acre, G24 bushels, at 80 cts. per bushel, $459.20- 



Expense per acre, 124.70 



Profit per acre, $334.50 



Methuen, Aug. 26, 1889. 

 I hereby certify that I have this day measured a tract of land 

 for John H. George, on which was a crop of onions entered by 

 him for premium of the Essex Agricultural Society, and that said 

 tract contained one half an acre. 



Jos. S. Howe. 



STATEMENT OF A CROP OF POTATOES, GROWN BY JOHN H. GEORGE 

 OF METHUEN. 



The piece of potatoes which I enter, were grown on new land, 

 which had never before been ploughed, and had never had manure 

 applied. The soil is a yellow gravelly loam, facing south-east. 

 This spring I ploughed the piece with four large horses and the 

 largest plough I ever saw used. I had three men follow the 

 plough and take out all the stones, which pretty well covered 

 the ground. After we were through I contracted with a man to 

 carry away the stones, for them, big and little, so it cost me noth- 

 ing to remove them. I then harrowed it well ; furrowed it with 

 a large plough going twice in a row, and making a furrow about 

 10 inches deep ; I manured in the hill with a compost of muck, 

 night soil, wool waste and a little lime, a good shovelful in a hill ; 

 hills and rows as near three feet apart as I could guess. It was 

 planted with medium size potatoes, two in a hill. Varieties : 



