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EXPERIMENTAL FARMS. 



TABLE CARROTS. 



Five sorts were tested, Peer of All and Scarlet Nantes being the best. 



KALE, 



One variety, Plumage, was sown in hot-bed on April 19th, transplanted in hot- 

 bed on April 2b'th, transplanted to open ground on May 29th, and taken up on 

 September 16 th. 



KOHL-RABI. 



Two sorts were tested. Both were a fair crop. 



Purple Goliath, White Vienna, they were sown May 30th, came up June 5th, 

 and were tit for use October 1st. 



CORN, 



Native corn known also as squaw corn, planted on May 25th, was fit for use on 

 August 29th, and ripe on September 1st. 



MUSHROOMS. 



A mushroom bed was made in the potato cellar, and the spawn put in on April 

 8th. The first mushrooms came up on June 22nd, and the bed continued bearing 

 all summer. 



LETTUCE. 



Four varieties were tested in a hot-bed, and three of these sown in open 

 ground. 



Sown in Hot-bed . 



New Buttercup 



Denver Market 



Golden Queen 



Large Yellow Market 



Sown in open 



Denver Market 



Large Yellow Market 



New Buttercup 



Sown. 



Apr. 17. 



do 17. 



do 17. 



do 17. 



Trans- 

 planted in 

 Hot-bed. 



May 26.. 



do 26.. 



do 26.. 



do 26. . 



Fit 



for use. 



July 20. 



do 26. 



do 18. 



do 30. 



Remarks. 



Good. 

 Good. 

 Good. 

 Good. 



Sown. 



May 

 do 

 do 2. 



2.. 



9 



Up. 



May 8.. 

 do 8.. 

 do 8.. 



Fit 



for use. 



Remarks. 



Aug. 15. . 

 do 15.. 

 do 15.. 



Good. 

 Good. 

 Good. 



