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department by selecting the early varieties, and they will 

 help fill our tables at home while the later crops are maturing. 

 The early Winningstadt cabbage is a gem in its way, and we 

 have found them in perfection during the month of March. 

 The early scarlet carrot, so nice to flavor soups, can be 

 perfected in the month of September. The Danvers onion 

 is often, as it was the last season, ripe by the first of 

 September. We saw the best peck of this variety on 

 exhibition from the dyked marsh of Green Harbor. Also, 

 specimens of hay and oats, all without special fertilizers. "We 

 have little doubt that the grape and the pear could be raised in 

 perfection on this new soil. The writer picked strawberries 

 from vines on this soil until the 10th of July, when our berries 

 and vines at home were completely burned up by tlie drought. 

 The venerable President Wilder tells us that there are three 

 things requisite to tlie successful cultivation of the strawberry : 

 " The first is, water; second, more ivater; third, plenty of 

 watery And the same remark applies,, in a less degree, per- 

 haps, to all plants and fruits when they reach the time 

 of ripening. Those strawberries and onions found plenty of 

 water somewhere during those scorching days of July. We 

 call the attention of the community and the State Board of 

 Agriculture once more to lands like these. Every farmer feels 

 the need of more manure from year to year, and the cost is 

 considerable. Where all farm products can be produced 

 without special fertilizers, there, if anywhere, can the problem 

 of labor be solved for the farmer. 



At no time during the history of this country have we more 

 cause for encouragement. We have no royal road to offer, no 

 certainty of success with every crop, because the farmer is sub- 

 ject to the caprice or change of the seasons, yet is master of 

 his trade, if he only cultivates faith and works with patience 



