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Marrow, but regarded by Mr. Brown as inferior to it, being a 

 mixture of the Marrow and India squash, he has produced 

 thirteen and a half tons from one acre ! It can be afforded for 

 two-thirds, or perhaps half the price of the Marrow. On 

 inquiry, it appears that the destructive yellow bug, so dreaded 

 every where, and which is usually destroyed by killing, troubles 

 Mr. B. but little. He uses lime. A cask or more is slacked in 

 the usual way, only as dry as possible, and while hot is sown 

 broadcast, in a favorable wind, over the vines. The bugs fly 

 before it, and escape into the sea, or somewhere else ; at any 

 rate, they never trouble them again, when this is once thor- 

 oughlv done. 



The prospect for a price is probably as good this year as last. 

 One acre of Mr. B.'s squashes then produced thirteen and a half 

 tons ; of these, three tons were sold at thirty-five dollars per ton, 

 and the remaining ten and a half tons, at forty dollars per ton. 



That some of the farmers of the county of Essex should be 

 able to procure crops and receive remuneration like this, is 

 encouraging. Mr. Brown declares that his crops do not exceed 

 those of his neighbors, whose farms I did not sec ; and yet he 

 states that he sold ^7,000 worth of produce last year, and 

 thinks he shall this year sell $10,000 worth — the whole expense 

 of raising them not exceeding $3,000. If any doubt it, let 

 them look at the crops, for that is the end of all argument. I 

 have said nothing of the two acres of carrots, with thirty tons 

 to the acre. I have said nothing of the two hundred bushels 

 of cranberries, worth at least four dollars per bushel, nor of 

 the English hay, a great article this year, but of which I neg- 

 lected to take any account. Neither have I referred to the 

 potato crop, a good part of which is the before untried Bermuda 

 Island potato. When all this is reckoned, with the other more 

 minor productions, and when it is recollected that Mr. B.'s 

 whole farm consists of two hundred and forty acres, with, if I 

 recollect, over a mile of beach, supplying a surplus of manure, 

 it will be conceded that Mr. Brown is a model farmer for our 

 county, and that his resources will enable him, probably, to 

 exceed even his present attainments. 



David Choate, Chairman. 



