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season. Improvement every year has been our object ; now 

 and then one falling by the wayskle, but the ranks always kept 

 full by new contributors. A new feature, and prominent, has 

 been the increase of field corn over previous years. This 

 cereal has appeared on our tables, of excellent quality, and 

 grown in quantity at the rate of 107 to 112 bushels per acre. 

 This gives us all a feeling of encouragement. " With plenty of 

 corn and hay, we can have things pretty much our own way," 

 said the old farmer. It will pay us to cultivate corn if we feed 

 our crops. It sells well on the farm, and there is no fear of 

 decav, if it is cured with care. 



Your Committee report a large variety of vegetables, com- 

 piising squashes, beets, turnips, potatoes in great variety. If 

 these productions cannot be sold at remunerative prices, they 

 are valuable to the farmer to feed to stock, and he can grind 

 them into milk and meat and chickens and eggs, ad infinitunif 

 thus keeping the wolf from the door in a period of great com- 

 mercial depression. Learn, then, to feed your crops if you 

 would be fed. Give and you shall receive, is the law. Heavy 

 crops of onions have been raised on sandy soil, by extra care 

 and an application of ashes, at the rate of forty barrels to the 

 acre. The same general rule applies to strawberries and most 

 of the early crops. 



In addition to the usual variety was a table covered with 

 the productions of the new soil on Green Harbor marsh. 

 Heavy oats and rye and barley, and all the vegetables that- 

 were grown there were of good quality, and grown witliout 

 special fertilizers ; in fact, where manure has been applied^ 

 there has been no apparent benefit. Some idea of the pro- 

 ductive quality of these lands may be formed, when w© 

 consider the depth of soil, which ranges from six to tea 

 feet, a great deposit from the ocean of exceeding value to 



