1-10 MASSACHUSETTS AGRICULTURE. 



the Bartlett, Belle Lucrative or Fondante d'Automnc, Dearborn's 

 Seedling, Buffum, Flemish Beauty, and the Vicar of Winkfield, 

 which last, though it is only a second or third-rate desert fruit, 

 yet it is a first-rate baking or cooking pear, and as the tree is 

 remarkably vigorous, and bears abundant crops of large, fair 

 fruit, I think it a profitable variety for orchard culture. The 

 Seckel, though generally considered the finest variety known, 

 on my young trees cracks so badly as to render it of little 

 value ; the Beurre Diel, from the same cause, is worthless ; 

 none has done better with me, or produces finer crops of fruit 

 than the Bartlett. 



As regards dwarfs, I think the pear cannot be worked on 

 quince in this locality, so profitably as on its own stock; 

 although it comes into bearing younger, yet the tree, from 

 various causes, is more uncertain, and shorter lived. 



The varieties that have done best on the quince are the Glout 

 Morceau, Vicar of Winkfield, and the Louise Bonne deJersey. 



The pear does best under high cultivation, and when thus 

 cared for, no tree produces more delicious fruit, or is more 

 profitable ; and no man possessing a single rod of ground 

 should omit setting upon it, at least one pear tree, and that ono 

 should be a Bartlett. 



PLOUGHING. 



ESSEX. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



Ploughing with Double Teams. — However important good 

 ploughs may be, other things are of nearly as much importance 

 to make good work. 



A strong, well disciplined team is necessary. I say strong, 

 because a team that can proceed without an extra effort is more 

 certain to make a straight furrow and good work than a team 

 of a different character. A good teamster is also necessary ; 

 for a team cannot be well disciplined without a good teamster; 

 and even after it is disciplined, perfect work cannot be per- 

 formed without a good teamster. 



