VEGETABLES. 



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Plongliing and harrowing, 

 Carting on the manure, 

 Seed, 2 ounces, 75 cents each, . 

 Planting, ..... 

 Cultivating and hoeing three times. 



There were one thousand six hundred cabbages upon 

 the half acre, fifteen hundred marketable ones, the 

 Savoys averaging six lbs. per head, and the others 

 nine lbs. each. They have been sold at the average 

 price of 13 cents each, 



•12 00 



3 00 

 1 50 



4 00 

 8 00 



^51 00 



195 00 



Profit, 



$144 00 



I estimate the leaves worth, for feeding milch cows, enough 

 to pay for harvesting and marketing. 



It was remarked by one of the Committee, when viewing 

 the cabbage, that if I had planted nearer, I should probably 

 have got a larger crop. My aim is to get the largest return for 

 my manure and labor, and prepare the land for a hay crop ; 

 and I think when my crops are planted a greater distance apart 

 and well cultivated, that they are not so much injured by the 

 dry weather. If I was nearer the cities, where land is more 

 valuable, it might be an object to try and get the largest return 

 per acre, 



MIDDLESEX. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



We observed that the best and purest specimens were those 

 exhibited by men who grow them for the market. Being in 

 that business ourselves, we know that it is not manure or culti- 

 vation alone that makes good vegetables ; although without 

 them there could not be any great success, neither with them 

 can there be much success without good and pure seed of the 

 right kind. 



Now pure seed is not by any means an easy thing to purchase. 

 Perhaps almost the only way to get it is to do as these men who 

 exhibit these fine vegetables do — grow them yourselves. To do 

 that, the roots or plants must be selected for seed with the 



