REPORT 



COMMITTEE ON VEGETABLES, 



FOR THE YEAR 1894. 



Bv CHARLES N. BRACKETT, Chairman. 



In presenting their report for the year now closing, your Coui- 

 niittee take great pleasure in being able to congratulate the Society 

 on the cominendable exhibits which this department has been able 

 to make, notwithstanding the* extremely hot, dry summer, and 

 other drawbacks discouraging to the cultivator. The unprece- 

 dented drought, with the mercury standing for days together in 

 the nineties, told severely upon growing crops, which in some 

 instances were totally ruined from the absence of the much 

 needed rain. 



The experience of the year teaches the cultivator the importance 

 of securing every possible condition of success in the growing of 

 his crops. The importance of water to growing plants, and its 

 influence upon them may readily be conceived, when it is known 

 to form upwards of one-half of all green vegetable matter, and 

 to serve as a means of conveyance for all the nutritive elements 

 required for their sustenance. With an unlimited supply of water 

 at command, and facilities for its proper distribution among his 

 crops, the farmer is seldom heard to complain of drought, neither 

 is he worried about excessive cost, if his land is well and properly 



