FARMS. 99 



" The carrots were mruiured with menhaden and barn ma- 

 nure, but did not come up well — yielded three tons, with 

 twenty-five bushels turnips and ten bushels beets, where the 

 carrots missed. 



" The squashes were manured with menhaden and barn 

 manure — yielded three tons, with forty bushels turnips between 

 the rows. I used the shell fish known as horse-shoes, to repel 

 bugs — put four around each hill, and we had no trouble with 

 the bugs. 



" For cabbages, I used menhaden and salt, but I cannot tell 

 how many I obtained. They were remarkably large. 



" I have raised some broccoli and Brussels sprouts ; the 

 latter I would not recommend, as they take up too much room 

 for their quality. 



*' I have raised, also, some Kohl rabi, but do not think 

 this vegetable fit for human food, but it will do very well 

 for cattle. It will keep longer, I think, than any other veg- 

 etable. 



" I have tried muscles for beets and beans — the beets grew 

 to a monstrous size, but the beans did not do very well. I 

 have tried rock-weed and Irish moss for grass ; the former 

 gave very good crops ; the latter did not do much. I have 

 seen the good effects of rock-weed on grass for three years. 

 I think menhaden mixed with muck a very valuable manure ; 

 but for heavy land I prefer fish separately. I value sea-trash 

 in proportion to the rock-weed it contains. I mix it with 

 barn manure. I think it might be used profitably, if we had 

 large, flat-bottomed boats to bring it from the Gurnet. It 

 seems to me that it is not worth one dollar a ton, but I be- 

 lieve it can be brought here at a profit to the farmer and 

 carrier." 



Farmers on the seaboard have many advantages over those 

 in the interior, and it is very surprising that these advan- 

 tages have not, till recently, been generally recognized by 

 those, even, whose farms run down to the water's edge. A 

 greater activity, however, can be observed every year in care- 

 fully collecting what the sea throws on the shore ; but there 

 are other resources which have not yet been turned to account. 

 No farmers along the coast show more zeal in the use of sea- 

 manure than those of Manomet Ponds, a district which occu- 



