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sketch shows the bench as I use it. The bench is made of a two- 

 inch plank bottom with sides of four-inch board, resting on a frame 

 of three by four scantling, and made water-tight by means of a 

 cement lining. Lines of two-inch tile are laid upon the bottom 

 across the bench, two or two and one-half feet apart, the end tile, 

 which receives the water, turned up at an angle of forty-five 

 degrees. 



I shall have to pass over for this time other svibjects which 

 might be worthy of fuller notice, such as the need of more 

 thorough cultivation of the home market and the hopes with 

 which some of our brethren in these border towns look upon 

 coming tariff changes as means to free them from the formidable 

 competition of Canadian gardeners, and thus to bring about at 

 least a temporary rise of prices in garden products. 



In conclusion, let me express the hope and wish that the return 

 of old-time prosperity may be close at hand, and that we may thus 

 be relieved of all further anxious speculations and doubts as to the 

 future of market gardening. We have full faith that all will turn 

 out well in the end. 



Discussion. 



Benjamin P. Ware said that he had been pleased with the 

 character of this paper, and happily disappointed. It had not told 

 us of .the theory and practice of market gardening and he was 

 glad of it ; it had given us what we need. As the prices for prod- 

 uce diminish we must adopt some method to reduce the cost of 

 production, and the importance of reducing the cost of production 

 has been brought out. In business today we find the waste prod- 

 ucts are used to manufacture new articles, but we farmers and 

 gardeners are the most extravagant of all. He wanted to 

 emphasize that we can save one-third or one-half the cost of fer- 

 tilizers by mixing them ourselves. We must buy the raw mate- 

 rials and mix them ourselves, and use what our crops require. The 

 mixed products on the market are not what we want. He did not 

 know why such mixtures are made. We must learn from the 

 experiment stations what we need, and mix as our plants 

 require. Mixed fertilizers do not supply that. Professor Jordan, 

 at a farmer's institute in New Hampshire, which the speaker 

 attended, emphasized the idea that we should contract with agents 

 for the materials, and that a saving of fifty per cent can be made by 



