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years' test." The " Burbank," another excellent potato, which 

 should have a premium offered for it by the Society, looked 

 well and good accounts are given of it. The potatoes shown 

 by Alfred Green of Salisbury were enormous, and we are sor- 

 ry that he did not reply to our inquiries, for, if what a by- 

 stander said was true, " that they were a fair sample of the 

 whole crop," it must have been an extraordinary one, for 

 twenty-three of Burbank, and twenty-two of early and late Rose 

 filled a peck, also onions, twenty-nine to a peck. The exhibits 

 of the " Ohio" potato by B. Frank Barnes of Boxford, and the 

 " Beauty of Hebron" by Wallace Bates of Lynn, showed them 

 to be very prolific. 



We should judge that phosphates and other condensed fer- 

 tilizers have proved the past season of great benefit to the po- 

 tato crop, as well as others, from the accounts of it we have in 

 the interesting replies to our inquiries which will be found in 

 this report. 



The display of Squashes was from twenty-four contributors, 

 who had so many good ones as to make it no easy matter to 

 decide which were the best. We noticed some whose large 

 size for the variety would not commend them to an economical 

 housekeeper or to a vegetable committee. We would advise 

 any one planting for profit to select his seed from a medium 

 sized squash that he has tried and found good, rather than 

 from large ones which are generally coarse grained and wa- 

 tery. We also think the best time for planting to be between 

 the 20lh of June and 1st of July. Seed planted the 25th of 

 June by our Chairman escaped the ravages of the bugs and 

 produced about half a ton of even sized and well-ripened Tur- 

 ban and Hubbard Squashes, on 1500 square feet of land, ma- 

 nured only with two handfuls of Bradley's fertilizer to a hill, 

 hills six feet apart (if they had been farther apart they would 

 have done better) three plants were left in a hill. 



Your committee were a little in doubt whether the premium 

 offered by the Society " for the best American Turban Squash" 

 meant any " Turban" found tlie best, or, the original type of 



