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As an educational feature, a large display of the produce 

 from the station was exhibited at the Rochester fair, the New 

 Hampshire Horticultural Society's Annual Exhibit, and the 

 Durham Grange Fair. This display consisted of a large col- 

 lection of both fruits and vegetables. A feature of the display 

 was an exhibition of methods of packing for market. The 

 work with muskmelons has been continued, but more in the 

 line of fertilizer experiments, and tracing the origin of varie- 

 ties. Besides the testing of new varieties of potatoes, some 

 experiments on comparative tests of potato fertilizers, ready 

 mixed versus home mixed, were begun. The use of legumes 

 as an orchard cultivated crop was continued. Notes previ- 

 ously begun on fruits and other vegetables have been greatly 

 added to and a large number of photographs for purposes of 

 illustration have been taken. Three bulletins have been 

 issued bv the department during the year. The working up 

 of notes from experiments for publication has been greatly 

 hindered from the fact that the head of the department has 

 had to carrv extra work in the Department of Agriculture due 

 to its frequent changes. 



This being an apple season we had a large crop, of which 

 216 barrels have been sold and shipped, and the remainder 

 are in storage. We grew about three acres of potatoes be- 

 sides the numerous varieties in our trial grounds. The yield 

 was very good ; varieties used were Early Rose, Washington, 

 and Green Mountain. They have averaged us about seventy- 

 five cents a bushel for those sold, and we have still on hand 

 about 400 bushels. We set out about one-fourth acre of 

 celery, and have on hand in pits, ready for sale, about 2,500 

 bunches. Early in the season we sold about two thousand 

 heads of early spring cabbages, a quarter acre each of beets, 

 cucumbers, and lettuce, and during the season we also dis- 

 posed of about one acre each of marrow squash, sweet corn, 

 peas, and bell peppers. About an acre of muskmelons were 

 planted, but the season was not a favorable one for them, 

 although we secured some returns. The orchards were kept 

 under cultivation, and bush beans were largely planted in 



