424 BOAED OF AGRICULTURE. 



such as asparagus, a most popular vegetable aud easily 

 grown and marketed, — of which in the State were grown 

 $55,000 worth, most of which went to Boston. Nantucket 

 raised none for sale. Of tomatoes she sold $55 worth, while 

 the amount sold in the State was $138,000, a desirable veg- 

 etable, and as readily marketed as it is easily grown. Cel- 

 ery, $50,000 worth in tbe State ; none raised for sale on the 

 island. Cabbages in the State, $440,691; she grew $600 

 worth. Of strawberries Nantucket raised $59 worth out 

 of the $215,000 worth sold in the State. 



Why should she not, beside these, throw into the Boston 

 market early pease, cucumbers, lettuce, rhubarb, melons 

 and squashes without limit ? 



In 1860 Mr. Allen Smith raised 46 bushels of barley, 

 26| bushels of wheat, and 187 bushels of ears of corn, each 

 on one acre ; the corn aud stover amounting to $125. 



E. ^Y. Gardner, 80 bushels shelled corn and 2| tons of 

 stalks. 



In 1864, E. W. Gardner grew 3 acres of corn, yielding a 

 net profit over expenses of $287. D. Folger raised $120 

 worth of beets, at a cost of only $30 per acre. 



James Thompson showed, by carefully kept accounts, 

 that on his farm of 26 acres he had made a net profit of 

 $734, besides including in his labor account a great deal of 

 work in fencing, draining and other work for general im- 

 provement. 



When we see what have been the bountiful products of the 

 island, we feel confident that what has been done can be 

 agaiu done, and also very much extended. 



Less than twenty years ago the beef, pork, mutton and veal 

 producod on the island were in value over $32,000. Ten 

 years after that, they only amounted to $2,200. 



Now, with the same soil beneath their feet, the same 

 heavens over their heads, and with vastly improved mechani- 

 cal appliances to aid them, why should they not, with energy, 

 skill aud industry, make as good a showing in the State cen- 

 sus of 1883, as they did in 1865? 



Beside the printed reports in years gone by, of the farms 

 of the Messrs. Folger, Gardner, Thompson and others, I 

 fiud one in the reports of our Secretary for 1866, of the 



