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Celery as a special crop pays well if you can raise the best and 

 are near the market. 



Tomatoes are often extensively grown with good success and sold 

 at remunerative prices, to the canning factories. 



We have taken $150 per acre from a crop of squashes, with an 

 outlay for work and manure of less than $50 and they are a very easy 

 crop to raise and tend. 



While one may not successfully compete for much profit in all such 

 lines, each farmer may select some one or more and make it a source 

 of profit and pride. He should go into whatever line he enters well 

 fitted theoretically and practically to produce the best of the article 

 he is engaged in raising. Many are careless in growing, in gathering 

 at the right time and in preparing for the market in a neat and 

 attractive way. The farmer should study and work assiduously to 

 secure the best that can be had, for no matter how dull the market 

 the best product will sell at a fair figure where inferior stuff would 

 have to be thrown away. So after raising and gathering at the right 

 time the crop should be carefully and tastefully arranged for the 

 market. Many an inferior product sells because it is put up to look 

 well, and many a good article is almost thrown away because of the 

 careless indifference with which it is prepared. 



Then one must have the " run of the market" as they say. First 

 he must know where to go and when to take each product. Second, 

 he must make a reputation for having the best, prepared in the way 

 to sell the best, marked with his name or brand, and dealing squarely. 

 With the second part established he need not fear competition so 

 long as he deals on the square and keeps the excellence of his 

 product. 



It makes us glad to see the right men take hold of this line of work 

 for such men cannot but raise the standard of New England agricul- 

 ture, and profitably reclaim the abandoned farms of Yankeedom 

 where the best men of the nation are raised. 

 Respectfully submitted, 



F. S. COOLEY, 



Chairman of Committee on Vegetables. 



REPORT ON POTATOES AND CORN. 



To the Secretary of the Hampshire Agricultural Society. 



The three half-acres of potatoes entered for premiums were 



