two hybrid grapes, and those of Mr. Rogers, possessing 

 qualities superior to those of aii}^ others, while other 

 parts of the State have added Dana's Hovey and Clapp's 

 Favorite pears, the Concord Grape, and the President 

 Wilder Strawberry. 



Other fruits and vegetables might well be mention- 

 ed. The neighboring State of Vermont has made such 

 vast strides in the improvement of the Potato as to 

 cause those who have lived through the morus multicau- 

 lus, Rohan Potato and hen fevers, to stand aghast, wait- 

 ing for the excitement to abate, to see if Bresee's No. 

 4 is really two hours earlier than the Early Rose. But 

 all may be assured that great improvement has really 

 been made in the potato. And yet there are persons 

 among that numerous class wdio, because they lived up- 

 on a farm until seventeen years of age — and so, forsooth, 

 ■^^ know all about farming " — are asking what improve- 

 ment has been made in Agriculture ? 



Who ever heard, until within a few years, of seventy- 

 four tons of mangel-wurzel being grown upon one acre 

 of land ; of thirty-six tons of carrots, or nine hundred 

 bushels of onions per acre ? Such crops as these are 

 facts that can be proved. Such crops have been grown 

 and can be grown again. 



Several French and German chemists have estimated 

 the value of English hay in comparison with other kinds 

 of food for milch cows, and they make two hundred and 

 fifty pounds of beet roots equal to one hundred pounds 

 of hay. According to this estimate the above crop of 

 mangolds would equal in value nearly thirty tons of hay ; 

 or supposing the chemists' estimate to be only half right, 

 the root crop would then equal fifteen tons of hay per 

 acre. It has been ascertained by actual experiment 



