ON FRIUTS AND VEGETABLES. 79 



The Committee award the following gratuities : 



To Andrew Dodge, J. B. Metcalf, Peabody Rus- 

 sell, Moses French, and Samuel Balch, 2 dollars each. 



To Sarah Johnson, Dr. Bricket, W. Boynton, 

 Dean Robinson, R. S. Ives, S. C. Thurlow, William 

 Williams, and William Osborn, one dollar each. 



John M. Ives, three dollars.* 



Your Committee would repeat their recommenda- 

 tion which they made in their last report, that the 

 farmers of the county, particularly those that forward 

 us specimens of their products, would accompany 

 them with an account or memoradum of the time and 

 manner of sowing, the kind and quantity of manure, 

 and the method taken to produce the crop. 



At the time the Report was given at Georgetown, 

 your Committee stated that there were many new 

 facts, regarding the culture of Indian Corn and Po- 

 tatoes. It has been asserted by some of the most 

 practical farmers in this country, that the method of 

 cutting off the stalks of corn while they are succulent, 

 is contrary to all the principles of vegetable physiol- 

 ogy ; and although for the selling of the grain by 

 measure the additional quantity received may not be 

 equivalent to the value of the stalks for cattle feed- 

 ing, still if the grain were sold by weight, as it should 

 be, and as it is in all other countries, it would be 

 found bad policy to cut or mutilate the stock while it 

 contained sap or moisture ; but while we should dep- 

 recate this method in corn, we should recommend the 

 method long since practised in the old country with 



♦This graiuily was awarded by the committee, after the chairman had made his 

 repoit. 



