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if I wait until about the middle of June, sometimes I have 

 had a fair crop. 



Mr. FrLLEBROWN. I think I distinctly stated, in regard 

 to the land to which I applied Bradley's Fertilizer, that it 

 had had no manure put upon it for four years. It was land 

 adjoining mine, that I liired. I have raised, I think, a better 

 crop of cabbage on ground to which I applied the fertilizer 

 than where I used horse-manure. I first manured the ground 

 with night-soil spread on broadcast, cultivated it in thor- 

 oughly, and I then furrowed the ground, and on that por- 

 tion I put in a lot of good horse-manure just drawn from 

 the stable, and on the other portion of it I put the fertilizer, 

 treating it all in the same manner as to cultivation. I think 

 where I put on the fertilizer, which did not cost me more 

 than half what the horse-manure did, the crop was equally 

 good ; and sometimes, when I have looked at it, I have 

 thought it was better. The ground was staked off, so that I 

 knew exactly where the fertilizer went. I would like to 

 hear some gentleman who has had practical experience in 

 using fertilizers. 



Mr. Whittakee, of Needham. I have noticed that a 

 number of gentlemen who have spoken have compared the 

 prices of vegetables now with what they were some years 

 ago. Do they refer to the time when the gold dollar was 

 worth about two dollars and a half of paper currency ? If 

 they do, probably the gold price of vegetables is about the 

 same as it was then. We must bear in mind that every 

 thing has been going down and down in value. As our 

 paper currency has appreciated, other articles have gone 

 down. Market-gardening has shared the same fate as every 

 thing else. There is not a commodity to-day that is sold, 

 that the seller does not complain of the lowness of the price. 

 Let us take the prices now, compared with the prices in 1860, 

 and see how we shall stand then. I should like to have 

 some of our friends who were selling these vegetables in 

 1860 tell us how the prices to-day compare with what they 

 were then. 



Mr. Philbrick. It is time this side of the house called 

 upon the other. The chairman is a practical farmer. There 

 is no man on the Board who is listened to with more atten- 

 tion. I hope we shall hear from him before the close of this 

 session. 



