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is a very successful cultivator of strawberries and vegetables, 

 and who finds his market in Boston. I want him to tell us 

 why he is obliged to send his vegetables to Boston. 



There is another thing I want to bring to the notice of this 

 meeting, and that is, an essay that is published in the Massa- 

 chusetts Agricultural Report of the present year, on market 

 gardening, by the very gentleman whom 1 am endeavoring to 

 call up, Mr. Moore. A more valuable essay, according to my 

 idea, was never written and printed in this or any other State, 

 if gentlemen will only examine it and learn from it. 



Dr. Durfee. If I were from Middlesex, I think I should 

 stand up here pretty bold on this subject. I have been dwell- 

 ing considerably of late upon statistical information, and when 

 I came to look over the statistics of Massachusetts, and saw 

 what Middlesex does in this matter of raising vegetables, and 

 the annual income received from that source, it astonished me ; 

 and, as I said before, if I was from that county, I think I should 

 be ready to say something in regard to the position of Middlesex 

 on this subject. I notice in the statistics of the Industry of 

 Massachusetts, that Middlesex County received more income 

 from the growing of vegetables than the whole State of Massa- 

 chusetts besides, and any man who comes from a county that 

 has as good ground to stand on as that, certainly ought to be 

 heard on this floor. 



Mr. Moore, of Concord. I do not propose to say anything 

 on the corn-fodder question, but I could not help thinking, at 

 the time when that matter was under discussion, that a gen- 

 tleman who is as smart as Dr. Loring must have been in a 

 pretty tight place, if it took him an hour to get out of it. I 

 leave it there. I think that is answer enough to all he has 

 said. 



I do not know that I need to speak of the importance of 

 raising vegetables for consumption by the human race, or for 

 consumption by cattle ; certainly not, as far as the human race 

 is concerned ; but I do not think that our farmers understand 

 the necessity of growing roots for their cattle. If they do 

 understand it, they do not do it. There is no doubt that 

 the feeding of roots makes cattle more healthy, and they are 

 probably cheap food. In raising vegetables for the market, 

 there is a necessity that the soil should be adapted for growing 



