48 BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. [Jan. 



ers would not take the manure from stables where peat was 

 used, because they wanted it for heating purposes. 



With reference to the other parts of the lecture, I can con- 

 cur with tlie lecturer in every instance ; but I think in most 

 cases it will depend about as much upon the man as it will 

 upon anything else that you have. That is, the man must 

 know his business, especially in these days. It would do 

 very well in war time for any of us to plant what we pleased, 

 there was a profit in it every time ; but things have changed. 

 There is not a profit in everything you can put in the ground. 

 I have had a large experience, and I find that the older I 

 become the more I have to grow, and the less the profit seems 

 to be. 



Mr. Kinney. I do not know but the celery question is 

 assuming too large proportions ; but, being engaged in mar- 

 ket gardening in the vicinity of the small city of Worcester, 

 and knowing that almost all the celery furnished that city 

 comes from Kahimazoo, it seems to me that it is about time 

 we knew how to grow it. I think I have grown more 

 White Plume celery than any one else in Massachusetts, — 

 I know I have grown more than any one else in Worcester ; 

 and I have never got half enough to supply the demand. 

 The more I have, the more I want. Some of the best hotels 

 in Worcester will not take anything else if they can get 

 that. The Arlino;ton and the Boston Market go a-begging 

 if they can find the White Plume. There are a good many 

 reasons why the White Plume is better than any other 

 celery. It looks better. Now, there are very few people 

 who care to eat celery, but many people like to look at 

 the handsome leaves of the White Plume. AVhen the Kala- 

 mazoo people can grow their celery and send it to us with 

 the leaves intact, then they will have something that will be 

 a great improvement on what they send us now. I do not 

 think it makes very much difterence whether a man raises 

 anything which is good to- eat, or not. If it looks well, it 

 will pay him to raise it ; and if it looks well, he will take all 

 the premiums wherever he exhibits it, whether it is good or 

 not, — it may be potatoes, it may be celery, it may be 

 squashes, or anything else. I am sorry it is so. 



We are not discussing small fruits, but I may speak about 



