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Mr. D. M. Hazlett — I think this quite probable; we find it so 

 ■with human beings. An unhealthy man, if he go among con- 

 tagious disease, is almost sure to fall a victim to it, while a man 

 of good health and regular habits can go among it with impunity. 



Mr. Pearson — This is all wrong. In the first place, I don't 

 think the condition of blackberry plant has anything to do with 

 its being infected with rust. This rust is a living germ that is 

 borne by the winds and lights upon the leaf, and if it once takes 

 root, it grows and spreads over the whole plant. So, also, with 

 animals. I can inoculate and give any man the small pox, I care 

 not how healthy he may be. About thirty per cent, of the hog 

 family will not take pluro-pneumonia, but you can, by inoculation,, 

 give it to any of them. So, also, with the lump jaw on cattle. I 

 can make it grow on the hip or flanks. So with the blackberry 

 rust; if it once gets rooted in the leaf, the plant is doomed, be 

 it ever so healthy. 



Mr. Jackson does not think it necessary to grub up a plant that 

 has rust. Cut it off with a hoe, and leave them lie. 



Mr. Davis — I prefer to grub them up and carry them just as- 

 far away as possible. Two years ago I noticed one rusty plant in 

 a small patch of Kattatinnys, but paid no attention to it. The 

 next year the whole patch was rusty. 



Mr. Pearson — We can, as yet, come to no definite conclusions 

 on these things ; all that we can do is for each to give his own 

 observations, and, after a while, the sum of our experience 

 thrown together, may light us to the right path. 



REPORT ON CULINARY VEGETABLES. 



BY J. M. PEARSON, GODFREY. 



Only once in twenty-two years has the season been so favorable 

 for early vegetables. I planted peas March 14th, and we have 

 had no weather cold enough to hurt them, and they are now more 

 than twelve inches high, and all other things are proportionately 

 advanced. Early sweet corn has been out of the ground for more 

 than a week. For the coming month, I would plant peas for a 

 late crop, successive plantings of sweet corn, Egyptian, or 

 Stowel's, at intervals of two weeks, cucumbers, melons, 

 squashes and beans. Of squashes, I prefer, after four years 

 trial, for winter, the "Essex Hybrid." It keeps well, and is, I 

 think, superior to Hubbard. The Boston Marrow is best for fall 



