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angle worm is the greatest trouble to me, eating my potatoes 

 after a shower. 



Of Beans I have tried all kinds and find but two kinds fit to 

 raise. They are the Agricultural or the Mountain Cranberry, 

 Pole and Bush Yellow. It is very early, ripening all at the 

 same time. I planted this year a piece of land, 120x51 feet, 

 and from it I got 36 bushels of pods. I always plant June 10 

 to 15, always manuring with hen manure, mixed with meadow 

 muck, one-half of eacli. 



Reply from A. C. Estes of Rockport, who received a premium 

 for Potatoes and Cabbages. 



I cannot give you anything of much value regarding the cul- 

 ture of vegetables, for I have not kept any account of the cost 

 on any piece of land. I will state that this year, on about one- 

 half acre for potatoes, I spread on a coat of rockweed and 

 turned under in the spring, and in planting used about a table- 

 spoonful of Bradley's superphosphate in the hill, with very 

 good results, having about 125 bushels, on the half acre, of 

 Early Rose Potatoes. 



I also planted my Cabbages the same way, with good results. 

 I have never used any phosphate on any other crops. For 

 Onions I turn under a coat of rockweed and another of barn- 

 yard manure, in the Fall. I think it is better plowed in the 

 Fall than in the Spring. 



Reply of E. G. Hyde of Danvers, who is over 76 years of age. 

 1st. My land is a loamy soil, an old pasture all run out 

 with blueberry and other wild bushes. I put my plow to work 

 and tore it up a few years ago and made a garden of a portion 

 of it, where I can raise all kinds of vegetables by feeding with 

 good manure or No. 1 Guano, I mean Peruvian, which I think 

 much of, for potatoes with some manure. 2d. You inquire how 

 I manure for different vegetables. On that point I act accord- 

 ing to my judgment or state of the land. If the land is poor it 



