60 ROOT CROPS, ETC. 



Lawrin Pratt's Statement. — Onions. 



Soil, sandy loam ; have raised onions on the same ground 

 several years, applying horse manure. For present crop, 

 plowed twice, about three inches deep, two or three days 

 before planting; also used horse hoe and brush harrow; 

 spread three and a half loads of manure j cultivated with 

 hoe and fingers, eight times. The piece contains twenty rods. 

 Weight of crop, in September, 5060 pounds. 



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Cost of seed and planting 

 11 " plowing, 



a cultivating, 

 " harvesting, 



Value of manure, ------ 



$25 75 



Onion Raising in Northern Worcester County. — Statement of 

 D. H. Merriam of Fitchburg. 



The ground selected for the onion field lies on River 

 street, in Fitchburg, about three feet above the Nashua river, 

 and contains three acres. It has the appearance of having, 

 at some time, been overflowed by the river. It is nearly 

 level, and the soil is a sandy loam from one to three feet 

 deep. It had been in grass for eight years, since it had been 

 ploughed, and nothing put on to it during that time except 

 one hundred and fifty bushels of ashes. In the fall of 1864, 

 the Worcester North Agricultural Society ploughed about 

 two-thirds of the ground from six to twelve inches deep, and 

 the remainder was ploughed six inches deep, and late in 

 December I put on to one acre fourteen cords of slaughter 

 house and common barn manure, and left it in heaps of one 

 cart load in a place, and in March, 1865, 1 put on to the 

 other two acres twenty-six cords of mixed manure, consisting 



