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enough for me. Strains vary ; you may get a strain of 

 one variety that would be worth twice as nmch as another 

 strain . 



Mr. Samuel Watts (of Xatick). I foUowed the Boston 

 market for thirty years, and it was very seldom that I failed 

 to sell my products favorably. I live about 17 miles away. 

 I grow cal:>bage, sweet corn, tomatoes, cauliflower, and a 

 few cow beans. The lecturer has an advantage on the light 

 stuflT, he gets it there so much cheaper ; but I have had good 

 success this year on cabbage, tomatoes and corn. I have 

 sold but very few tomatoes this year under $1. I raised the 

 Stone tomatoes, cultivated my ground in very good shape, 

 and put those plants down deep. After furrowing it out 

 with a two-horse plow, I put a forkful of green cow manure 

 in. A great many men in the market wouldn't believe me 

 at first, but some people here know that I carried as good 

 tomatoes to Boston this year as any one carried in. My 

 idea is, that the Stone tomato is a fruit-grower, and when 

 they are fruiting they want something to feed on. After I 

 put in a forkful of green cow manure, I take a potato digger 

 and make a hole in the centre ; then I go on and plant three 

 or four rows at a time, putting just enough dirt in the holes 

 to cover them over ; and I haven't lost a plant. Last year 

 we had a frost rather early, and I cut them oft' with a sickle 

 and stacked them, — worked pretty late one night. We had 

 1,000 plants; and I said to the men, "Just for the fun of 

 it, count how many green tomatoes you shake oft' of the 

 vine," and they shook 117 tomatoes oft*, after we had been 

 picking for over a month. I came up here to-day, thinking 

 to get some information, and, having seen some })retty good 

 fruit, thought perhaps I might give some information. I 

 think that cauliflower, cabbage and sweet corn are about as 

 good crops as a man can raise who lives out about 15 to 17 

 miles from Boston, although I have averaged to go three 

 days a week into Boston for quite a while. And for a milk- 

 man — I am in the milk Imsiness as well — cabbage keeps 

 the flow of milk up when the grass is dried up, so he gets 

 a profit in milk as well as in selling the cabbage. I tell 

 you, any one who hasn't tried it will be surprised to know 

 the shrinkage in milk after you sto[) feeding a little cabbage. 



