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profit on that crop of cabbages, and I believe I can repeat 

 that most seasons. This season my cabbage was not planted 

 on favorable land and the dronght afiected it. 



The Secretary. As this subject is to come up this after- 

 noon in connection with the lecture by Mr. Cushman, Avhois 

 to speak on the question, " How shall we fertilize our 

 farms ? " I would move that this discussion be postponed un- 

 til after the reading of that paper. There are many here 

 present Avho have come to hear Mr. Moore's paper, and join 

 in the discussion of that. 



The Chairman. You hear the motion of the Secretary, 

 and undoubtedly see the propriety of acceding to it. 



The motion to postpone was put and carried. 



The Chairman. I now have the pleasure of introducing 

 to you Mr. Moore of Concord, who will speak to you on 

 the subject of market gardening. 



MARKET gardening. 



BY. J. B. MOORE. 



Mr. President and Gentlemen, — I propose to discuss the 

 subject of market gardening in a general way, leaving to 

 the skilful gardeners who are in attendance to describe 

 the methods of cultivation of the various crops grown by 

 them. 



What is the value of market garden crops grown in Mas- 

 sachusetts, and is it an industry of sufficient importance to 

 occupy the attention of this audience ? 



The census of the State for the year 1875 furnishes sta- 

 tistics of most of the crops grown by market gardeners. 

 Some of the crops enumerated, such as beans and potatoes, 

 perhaps, may be more properly called farm crops ; but as 

 potatoes are grown by market gardeners and farmers for an 

 early crop, and as beans are sold very extensively in a green 

 state, it would be fair to include one-half of their value in 

 these estimates, and of the others I have endeavored to take 

 only what may reasonably be called market garden crops. I 

 find, as the results of these estimates, products valued at 

 $3,503,231.00, and to this sum there should be added the 

 value of certain crops not enumerated in the census report, 



