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making wine to a very great extent, and its production for this 

 purpose is rapidly increasing in that country. 



In connection with fruits, Mr. Newhall produces some vege- 

 tables for market. Early potatoes are au important article. 

 Mr. Nowhall's mode of starting the sprouts on the potatoes to 

 be planted is wortiiy of notice. He puts them in narrow boxes, 

 on three sides of which strips of boards about two inches wide 

 are nailed, with spaces between them of an inch wide. These 

 boxes, holding perhaps a bushel each, are filled with potatoes, 

 and then brought within the influence of the heat of the fur- 

 nace, which warms the dwelling, the furnace being in the 

 cellar. Care is taken to bring them into just that temperature 

 which will gradually start the sprouts without withering the 

 tubers, which can be ascertained by carefully watching them 

 from day to day. The object is to have a good, strong, but not 

 very long sprout by the time the ground is ready to plant. 

 From potatoes thus sprouted, Mr. Newhall obtained a yield of 

 150 bushels per acre, this year — the whole crop having been 

 sold in July at ninety cents per bushel. The ground was then 

 sown to turnips, which yielded 266 bushels per acre, and sold 

 on the field at fifteen cents per bushel. 



Mr. Newhall called attention to a very handsome lot of cab- 

 bages, on ground from which a crop of strawberries had been 

 taken the present year. The vines were turned in with the 

 plough, after they had done bearing, a dressing of manure 

 applied, and the cabbages planted. The ground was entirely 

 free from weeds, and the crop of cabbages promising. We 

 learn that they made a good return. 



Mr. Newhall leases fifty acres of his farm. The committee 

 went over a portion of this, which they found had yielded large 

 crops of hay, Indian corn, vegetables of various kinds, and 

 apples and pears. An apple orcliard, which has been planted 

 eight years, attracted attention, from the good condition of the 

 trees and their productiveness. 



In regard to the general productiveness and profitableness of 

 the farm, we need only to cite the fact that the tenant, Mr. 

 Harding, pays Mr. Newhall a satisfactory sum as rent, and lays 

 up money for himself. A former tenant was enabled, in the 

 space of five years, to lay by enough to purchase a fine farm in 

 a neighboring town. These simple facts, and others of like 



