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It is much to be hoped that a larger share of attention will 

 be given to raising this and other fruits for table use. With 

 proper enterprise and pains on the part of producers, an abun- 

 dance of pears and grapes, fit for the dessert, may be introduced 

 to our market, making desirable additions to tlie strawberries, 

 cherries, peaches and apples, with which we are now so highly- 

 favored, and affording large profits to those who raise them. 



In taking leave of this topic, your committee would make 

 favorable mention of a small vineyard belonging to Edwin 

 Booth, Esq., and which they were invited to view. They found 

 on a small spot of ground — about forty square rods — the 

 Isabella and Catawba grape submitted to vineyard culture and 

 doing well. The vines were bearing profusely and ripening 

 quite satisfactorily. On the whole, your committee regard it 

 as a successful experiment, and advise others to do likewise, 

 and push the fruit into market. The demand, we venture to 

 afl&rm, will keep pace with the supply of good and well-ripened 

 grapes. 



R. H. Seely, Chairman. 



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MIDDLESEX. 



Statement of A. W. Putnam. 



Horse Rackets. — Having had considerable experience in 

 using horse rackets for the last five years, I wish to communi- 

 cate to you, and through you to the public, some improvements 

 which I have made, so that my brother farmers who wish to 

 reclaim their wild and uncultivated meadows, and make them 

 the most productive and beautiful portions of their farms, may 

 avoid some of the troubles and vexations I have met with. I 

 commenced with a set of the style marked No. 1. I found two 

 serious objections ; first, they chafed the ankle where the strap 

 buckled around it ; second, as the foot had but one bearing on 

 the bar, constant use, day after day, made the bottom of the 

 foot quite sore. I then took a set of the style marked No. 2. 



