158 BOARD OF AGRICULTUEE. [Jan. 



out all our white currants. In regard to the Victoria, our 

 experience has been that any late ripening currant does not 

 sell well. There is a large call, perhaps more than for any 

 other one purpose, for jelly making. There are persons who 

 buy it in large quantities, and it is well known that the cur- 

 rant should he picked early to make good jelly. After it 

 gets very ripe on the bushes it does not jell well, and the 

 Victoria, when it is late for good jelly, does not sell well. The 

 people are afraid of currants after about such a date, and the 

 prices of late currants are invariably less than those of early 

 ones. 



Mr. Cruikshanks. When I discovered the little straw- 

 berry beetle, I told Mr. Kinney's father what trouble I was 

 having. ' ' Why," said he, ' ' we have none of it ; " and he went 

 home and found his fields full of it. 



Adjourned to one o'clock, p.m. 



Afternoon Session. 

 The meeting was called to order by the Chairman at the 

 appointed time, and Mr. A. IT. Smith, an enterprising and 

 successful young market gardener of West Springfield, was 

 introduced as the first lecturer of the afternoon. 



MAKKET GARDENING. 



BY A. H. SMITH OF WEST SPRINGFIELD. 



" The battle is not to the strong alone, it is to the vigilant, 

 the active, the brave." Equally true is this of market gar- 

 dening, for success in this occupation is dependent, more 

 than in many others, on the rounded development of the 

 man. 



A high sense of honor should govern one in treatment of 

 help and in marketing of products. Energy and persever- 

 ance should so direct him that he may be undaunted even in 

 the face of unfavorable seasons and unprofitable crops. A 

 liking for his work must be joined to the inclination and 

 ability to study crops in their relations to fertilizers, soils 

 and markets. 



To me has been assigned the task of outlining some of 

 the problems of market gardening. I do so under these 



