92 WEST OXFORD SOCIETY. 



I used common, coarse barnyard manure — about two-thirds of a 

 shovel-full in the hill. Planted last day of May. Used Y bushels 

 of seed, one-third lady-finL;-ers, the remainder pink-eyes and whites. 

 Harvested Oct. 3d and 4th. 



The cost of growing was $12 ; value at my residence, $57.66. 



Fruit. 



The Committee on Fruit report, that the exhibition of fruits was 

 not so extensive as we had hoped to witness. Yet, when we con- 

 sider the unfavorableness of the past season, we feel highly gratified 

 with the success with which patient toil in this department has been 

 crowned. And, though from the coldness of our climate, the char- 

 acter of the soil in many places, with other disadvantages under 

 which Providence has placed us, precludes the hope of the degree of 

 success realized in other portions of our country, yet your committee 

 fully believe that great improvements may and should be made in 

 this direction. They believe that more time, care, and pecuniary 

 expenditure devoted to this branch of industry, would not only be 

 highly remunerative, but would furnish increasing social enjoy- 

 ments, and render home, as the Creator has designed it, more like 

 an original Paradise. 



And they furthermore believe that the greater the effort made in 

 this direction, the richer will be the enjoyment when a kind Provi- 

 dence shall have crowned that effort with success. May we not 

 hope then, that from year to year, new life and vigor will be infused 

 into this interesting branch of industry, by new experiments in the 

 culture of the various kinds of fruit capable of being raised in this 

 climate, together with the various products of the kitchen and flower 

 garden ; and also, the cultivation of the various kinds of garden 

 seeds, for home use, at least, together with fruit trees and shrubs of 

 choice varieties, enough to meet our wants, without relying upon 

 those brought from abroad, which, too often, only disappoint our 

 hopes. Let the trial be fully and promptly made, and we have but 

 little fear for the result. 



