1870.] 



SECRETARY S REPORT. 



27 



STATEMENT No. II. 



Cultivators. 



F. J. Kinney 



Moore 



0. B. Hadwen 



Ward 



Perry Thayer 



Jonathan Lyon 



William Y. Holman. 



Alden Sears 



D. W. Knowlton 



Isaac Mills 



GriflSn 



Stowell 



John B.Pratt 



James Draper 



George Adams 



Charles Nash 



A. D. 1869. 



Rods. Quarts. 



80 

 160 



10 



50 



25 

 120 



40 



12 



15 



22 



30 



15 

 120 

 120 



50 

 5i 



1,700 



3,100 



300 



1200 

 300 



1500 

 300 

 350 

 150 

 300 

 275 

 250 



1600 



3000 

 600 

 220 



A. D. 1870. 



Rods. Quarts 



80 



40 



»120 



nonef 



tl6 



none 



h 

 240 



d 



1,300 



860 



2,500 



say 175 



350 

 50 



1,000 



c 2,880 



* Shaded by grape vines in 1870. 



f Ploughed up. 



J New bed : i less for drought. 



^ New bed ; i to J less for drought. 



ij Old bed; grass, weeds and grape vines. 



n Old bed ; clover and sorrel. 



h Bed old and new ; A less for drought, 



c See Note. 



d Old bed, but clean ; less than h of 



crop 



of last year, although not entirely q^jj, 

 to the drought. 



Note. — Mr. James Draper has furnished the subjoined interesting statement : 

 " Quantity of land under cultivation, li acres. Yield, about 90 bushels. Land 

 cultivated in 1869, three-quarters of an acre. Yield from the same, 94 bushels. Yield 

 of 1870 as compared with 1869, less than one-half. Mode of cultivation — hills and 

 beds. Hill cultivation most satisfactory and iifty per cent, more profitable. Varieties 

 cultivated : Wilson, Nicanor, C. Downing, Lady of the Lake, and Jucunda. The most 

 productive varieties, the Nicanor and Wilson : the largest size fruit, C. Downing and 

 Jucunda. 



" The effect of the drought is most severely felt in the growth of vines for another 

 year, which are only about one-third grown. Consequently the crop of 1871 does not 

 at this time look very promising." 



And this table, be it noted, includes only the Strawberry crop, which was 

 mostly gathered before the full intensity of the drought was experienced. 



