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sprinkling it upon the vines when they were wet. They 

 never troubled me at all. 



Question. What is your mode of raising Lima beans? 



Mr. Warner. Well, sir, I generally take every bean and 

 place it in the ground with my fingers, with the eye down. 

 I generally put in two layers. If the season is wet, they are 

 sure to rot, and if there is a dry time they are sure not to 

 come up. So that I put one layer a little lower than the 

 other, and I am sure to hit it. 



Question. How do you manure them? 



Mr. Warner. With thoroughly rotted manure, and then 

 I apply some fertilizer also. I have applied the Boston fertil- 

 izer with good efiect, and it has done well with me on pota- 

 toes ; and wherever I have tried it, the result has been good. 



Mr. CoTTiNG, of Hudson. In respect to rust or scab upon 

 the potato, I have heard it said this afternoon that if the 

 potatoes are dug when they are green, you will not find any 

 scab or rust upon them. Last spring I had considerable 

 leisure, and with my own hands I planted and cultivated a 

 certain piece of ground in four different lots. That is, I 

 divided it into four lots. The. first lot I manured in the 

 hill, putting one shovelful of well-rotted horse-manure in 

 the hill, and planted the seed. The rows were forty-eight 

 feet long. There were six rows of them. I jilanted two 

 whole potatoes, about the size of a hen's egg, in each hill of 

 those rows, and covered them. Then I planted the same 

 extent of ground with the same number of hills, the same 

 distance apart, using no manure whatever ; but I covered 

 them well with ashes. The next lot I planted with the same 

 number of hills, using Reed's Compound, — a composition 

 made by Mr. Reed, of Boston, said to prevent the potato-rot. 

 I used no other manure on that lot. The next parcel of 

 ground, with the same number of hills, I manured in the hill, 

 and also put on Reed's Compound. The ground was hoed 

 with the hoe. There was no plough put in ; but I hoed it 

 mornings before the sun was up very high, and kept the 

 weeds out. I may have gone over it half a dozen times dur- 

 ing the season. Now, I come to the result. In the first lot, 

 where they were manured in the hill, I pulled one of the 

 rows very early, and I found in that row a great many pota- 



