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Reply of Alfred Green of Salisbury, who exhibited handsome^ 

 though very large potatoes and onions. 



Your favor of Oct. 18, asking statement of my majiner of 

 cnltivating is at hand. 



Late Rose. On thirty-one rods of sod pasture land, plough- 

 ed in about five cords of manure, made by two cows, two hogs 

 and one horse ; furrowed with horse in rows three feet apart ; 

 seed, potatoes size of alien's egg, cut once and dropped two 

 feet apart. 100 pounds Darling's fertilizer and 100 pounds 

 Plaster mixed together, strewn in the furrows. Crop hoed 

 twice, one application of Paris Green on the second crop of 

 bugs. Dug by hand hoe. From the 31 rods, I dug, of large 

 potatoes, 40 bushels, and of small, 10 bushels. 



Early Ro^e. Land dressed, seeded and cultivated the same 

 as for the Late Rose, on heavy loam, on which a crop of cab- 

 bages was raised last year. On 22 rods grew, of very hand- 

 some potatoes, 45 bushels ; of small ones, 5 bushels. 



Burhank's Seedling. Land, dressed, seeded and cultivated 

 the same as for the Early Rose Potatoes. On 5 rods, grew 12 

 bushels of large and 1 bushel of small, from one peck of seed 

 potatoes. 



Reply of E. F. Webster of Haverhill, who received a gratuity 

 for eighteen varieties of Seed Beans. 



In regard to the raising of Beans I find they do much better 

 to plow the manure in, in the early Spring, and plant from the 

 20th of May to the 20th of June. Our soil is all the way from 

 gravelly to dark loam. Sub-soil is usually loamy with excep- 

 tion of clay. 



Our Lima Beans we plant from the 10th to the 15th of June 

 in the richest and best soil we have. They do best to plant 

 after the land gets well warmed with the sun, and the soil 

 well mellowed, then put in the seed with a little super phos- 

 phate or bone meal guano in the hill. After the beans com- 

 mence to run pinch off the runners, head them in and you will 

 get more beans from the same quantity of seed. As to my 



