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years before it is worth while to undertake to draw any con- 

 clusions that will be of any great ^alue. 



Mr. Everett. In relation to salt, I had the same impres- 

 sion from books to which Capt. Moore has alluded, that 

 asparagus belonged to the marine plants : that salt would 

 materially increase the fertility and growth of it. I applied 

 salt a good many years ago, but without the least percepti- 

 ble effect ; it seemed to do just as well without it as with it. 

 I am sure it did no good. 



Mr. . It seems to me that the gentleman has made 



too sweeping a statement here in regard to commercial fer- 

 tilizers. From my own experience, I would advise every 

 farmer to put all his neat stock manure on his farm, and 

 then, in addition to this, use commercial fertilizers. These 

 commercial fertilizers are in that state that your crop, when 

 it first starts, will take them up, and then your neat stock 

 manure Avill carry them forward. I was setting out half an 

 acre of tomato plants a few years ago. I had ploughed in 

 the quantity of manure that I thought would be sufficient for 

 the crop ; then I got a bag of guano, for which I paid three 

 dollars ; I put a small handful in each hill, and in two weeks 

 from that time it, was very easy to distinguish between the 

 hills that had the guano and those that had none. I have no 

 doubt that I got as much as fifty dollars from that guano, for 

 which I paid three dollars. 



Mr. Moore. I want to make a correction. The gentle- 

 man said I had made too sweeping a statement in regard to 

 commercial fertilizers. I have not said a single word against 

 them to-day. I believe I use more fertilizers in one year 

 than the gentleman uses on his farm. 



The Chairman. Is Mr. Rawson present? If so, will he 

 please come forward and clear up this matter of fertilizers ? 



Mr. Rawson. I did not expect to be called up here to- 

 day. I came solely to hear my friend Moore speak on the 

 subject of market gardening. I expect the Chairman has 

 got me up here to answer questions, more than anything else. 

 Mr. Moore has gone over the subject of market gardening 

 in a sort of light way, taking the headings, and I will per- 

 naps follow in his steps a little, and coincide with some of 

 his views. 



