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day as they ride pass, and ask me if I am not going to get 

 in my celery. I say " No." The stalk is not good. Out of 

 twenty thousand plants I bought I do not suppose there were 

 fifty healthy plants. It seems to me the farmer is entitled 

 to some protection from seedsmen. 



With the exception of celery, our crops have been very 

 good this season. We have in store now perhaps fifteen 

 hundred barrels of cabbage. We have parsnips, onions and 

 turnips and most all vegetables of that kind to carry us 

 through the winter. We have some green-houses. 



That brinos me to another thinff. We have with us a sue- 

 cessful cucumber grower. He is a neighbor of mine, Mr. 

 Brown. He raises cucumbers under glass and ships them to 

 New York, and knows how to get twenty -five or thirty dol- 

 lars a bushel for them. I think you would like to know 

 how he does it. 



Mr. Brown. We get the cucumbers and send them dowm 

 there, and they bring the money. That is all there is to it. 



Dr. H. T. Fernald (of Amherst). There are some 

 points in connection with the very interesting paper which 

 we have heard this morning that I would like permission to 

 touch upon for a few moments. 



A recent map published in one of our papers was an in- 

 teresting study to me, giving, as it did, the so-called cen- 

 tres for different subjects, — the centre of population of the 

 United States, the geographical centre, the centre of crime, 

 of illiteracy. One of these centres, located not far from 

 Erie, Pa., was the manufacturing centre. Far to the east- 

 ward of the geographical centre is the manufacturing centre. 

 The editor, commenting on that point, said that this is but 

 an indication of the concentration of manufacturing interests 

 in and near the New England States. To my mind, how- 

 ever, it meant far more. Manufacturing means manufact- 

 urers, — not only owners, but workers. It means what we 

 have all listened to for years, — the concentration of life in 

 the towns and cities, which has led to the industry of mar- 

 ket gardening ; and the tendency to this concentration ap- 

 pears to be increasing with every decade, which increase 

 means a continual development of this already large occu- 

 pation. 



