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In the course of the season, the crop received four weed- 

 ings, (being twice crawled over and twice walked over,) and 

 four hoeings. I had little or no trouble from the blight or 

 maggot, and my crop ripened down finely. I began to pull 

 about the first of September, and soon began to market the 

 onions. Every bushel of the yield has been carefully 

 measured ; and after adding up my daily sales, I find the result 

 to be 764 measured bushels. On testing some loads, and sev- 

 eral separate bushels, by weight, for persons who preferred so 

 to purchase them, I found them to average 60 1-2 lbs. to the 

 bushel. The yield of 764 bushels being reduced to the So- 

 ciety's standard of 50 lbs. to the bushel, would give 924 

 bushels to the acre. 



The crop ripening down early, the onions were unusually 

 hard and heavy, (and when sold by measure, purchasers in 

 Boston market are not satisfied unless very full measure is 

 given them,) which accounts for their great weight. As an 

 evidence of the quality of the crop, I may state that between 

 forty and fifty bushels were purchased to grow seed from. My 

 crop was sold mostly in Boston, at an average price of 51 cents 

 a measured bushel. 

 764 bushels at 51 cents per bushel, $389 64 



From which deduct cost, viz : 

 Preparing land and planting (men), $7 00 



" " " " (team), 6 00 



Seed, three pounds, . 9 00 



■ Weeding, nineteen days, 19 00 



Pulling, three days, 3 00 



Topping, at 2 cents per bushel, 15 28 



Interest on land, 12 00 



Cost of teaming at $1 25 per load of 40 bu., 23 75 



03— $95 03 



$293 61 

 Marhlehead, Mass, 



