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Mr. Ware. Well, sir, if you can show me one more 

 perfect than that, I would like to see it. That has grown 

 from seed grown year after year in Marblehead, for more 

 than twelve years. That turnip suits me very well. It seems 

 to me good enough. 



Now, with regard to the machine I use ; Mr. Willis, who 

 invented the machine from which I took this idea, is in the 

 firm of Breck & Co., North Market Street, Boston. You 

 will find Willis's seed-sower there, and the inventor is there 

 now, I presume. They manufacture them, and they are the 

 only parties who do. 



Mr. . The question I wish to ask is, whether a 



brush-machine was not the only reliable machine. 



Mr. Ware. I think it is. Other people may think differ- 

 ently. Perhaps gentlemen have not understood that the 

 machine I use is a double machine, designed to sow the seed 

 and fertilizer at the same time. They both drop into a hopper 

 that tapers down like a tunnel, and the seed and fertilizer are 

 delivered in the furrow together. Then it is provided with a 

 little drag, that covers the seed, and presses the earth down 

 upon it. 



Question. Have you any trouble with the fertilizer killing 

 the seed ? 



Mr. Ware. I would not use fertilizers that would injure 

 the seed. I would not use Peruvian guano alone ; I would 

 adulterate it somewhat. Perhaps the guano you buy in a 

 great many places would be adulterated enough ; but the 

 superphosphates that you buy, the Brighton fertilizer, and 

 many other fertilizers, used in such small quantities as I 

 apply, I think would be perfectly safe applied clear. 



I will say one word in regard to the Swede turnip. It is a 

 very valuable vegetable, and the very best crop I ever grew, 

 and the best quality of vegetable, I sowed after a crop of 

 early potatoes. It must have been as late as the 25th of July ; 

 but that is a little too late to sow it ; ordinarily, it would not 

 succeed sown as late as that. But I should not recommend 

 sowing it as a first crop. The ground may be ploughed after 

 the grass is cut in June, or after some early crop has been 

 taken off, and this may be made to succeed well as a second 

 crop. It is a very valuable vegetable for feeding purposes. 



