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As will be seen, they have not attained any extraordinary size ; 

 but their quality can hardly be surpassed. They are exceedingly 

 tender and delicately flavored, and Avould have been large could they 

 have had sufficient time for growth. 



Of the cabbage, I regard the early York as the best early, the 

 early Savoy as next in value ; and for winter use, the late Savoy 

 and flat Dutch, I esteem among the best. There are three kinds of 

 beets — the turnip blood beet, the long red, and the golden. The 

 first and the last are the only kinds fit for table use. Of carrots 

 theYe are two kinds — the short horn and long oranfre. The first is 

 by far the nicest for table use. The kohl-rabi is not suitable for 

 table use except when first matured. Late in the season, they be- 

 come very fibrous, and are fit only for stock. Cattle are very fond 

 of them — more fond of them than they are of turnips. 



These vegetables received no other cultivation than to have the 

 weeds kept down. Those who wish to gi'ow vegetables of the largest 

 size and bring them to maturity in the shortest possible timf, can 

 do so by thoroughly rotting horse manure, and put it up in a leach, 

 and watering them with the liquid drawn from it; but care should 

 be used, not to have the liquid too strong. It should be reduced, so 

 that the liquid shall have but little color, and be applied every other 

 day or at least once in three days, with a common sprinkler, and 

 that always at night. Darius Forbes. 



South Paris, Oct. 5, 1857. 



Specimens of Grain. I present for examination specimens of 

 winter rye and two-rowed barley. Both of these were grown on 

 plowed land. The barley on the land where corn grew in 1856, 

 which was manured well with stable manure and phosphate of lime. 

 The rye was preceded by a crop of rye, and was manured with 

 Mapes' superphosphate of lime. A hoed crop was never taken 

 from this land, which was a pasture sod, broke up late in the spring 

 and planted to corn, and fed out as green fodder. The rye is of the 

 kind known as the "White Rye, with a small admixture of the com- 

 mon black ryQ. The white is a much larger and more plump grain 

 than the black, and makes a whiter and nicer flour. It weighs sixty 

 pounds to the bushel ; and the barley fifty pounds. 



Darius Forbes. 



South Paris, Oct. 5, 1857. 



