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three shovelfuls of manure, that has been thoroughly rotted, 

 into a hill, and drop the seed on the manure. The best 

 squashes that I have ever seen were grown upon a large heap 

 of manure that had been thoroughly pulverized. Last sea- 

 son, in our town, a man grew two hundred and forty-six 

 pounds of Marblehead squashes from one vine, which came up 

 in his tobacco-bed. Two hundred pounds of those squashes 

 were in good condition, well-ripened, and would average 

 twelve pounds apiece. That shows, to my mind, that the 

 land wants to be rich, and the manure wants to be well 

 pulverized. 



I can grow almost every kind of vegetable, except pease. 

 Pease I cannot grow. Beans, whenever I plant them, I know 

 nearly what I am going to get. The most profitable bean, 

 and the hardest bean to grow of any, is the Lima bean. I 

 have never had a failure, and never expect to have ; but I am 

 sure to get good seed. I never save a seed from any squashes 

 which I grow for the next year. You will hear some farmers 

 say that they have planted squashes for the last ten or fifteen 

 years, and they have gathered their squash-seeds and saved 

 them. The result is, they have a kind of pumpkin, — a little 

 Boston squash, a little Turban, and a little Hubbard mixed 

 together. It is not as good as a nice, sweet pumpkin. Be 

 sure that you get pure seed, and j^ou will have good squashes. 



The question has been asked, what to do with the maggot. 

 I have been troubled with it for the last three or four years. 

 The last season I applied tobacco. I left in my hills some 

 four or five plants, calculating that the maggot would eat at 

 least half of those, and perhaps more ; but I found that 

 almost all my plants lived, and afterwards I had to go around 

 and trim out the vines. I had no trouble whatever from the 

 maggot this year. I applied the tobacco very freely. 



Question. Please state the manner of applying it. 



Mr. Warner. We grow tobacco with us to a considerable 

 extent. I applied the leaf, which I gathered around the 

 tobacco-vines, and then I took out of my store some fine-cut 

 chewing-tobacco, and placed a little of it around every squash- 

 plant, and every black bug that made its appearance was 

 killed. They did not stay a great while upon my squashes. 

 For the yellow bug, I applied plaster and black pepper, 



