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corn cannot be grown with profit witliout toeding the plant in 

 all its stages of growth. The yield has ruled small per acre 

 in former years, and will continue so until we become convinced 

 that more and better fertilizers should be applied. Mr. Brown 

 thinks the hoise-hoe should do all the cultivating, and that 

 level culture is the best. Mr. Turner of Scituate exhibited a 

 specimen of early corn which received the first premium. The 

 old question recurs : — which is the best, — the early or the 

 late variety ? We wish to suggest a method of exhibiting 

 specimens of corn which may help each farmer to answer the 

 question for himself. Select two ears as near alike as possible. 

 Shell one of them and tie the cob close to the side of its mate ; 

 put in a small glass jar the corn shelled. These three speci- 

 mens marked plainly show the relative values of the different 

 varieties. Every member of the Society should bring with his 

 corn some partial thought and local culture which elicits dis- 

 cussion, which is, after all, the main benefit of our Fair. We 

 should not forget the value of our vegetables and roots, and 

 other grains, Vai'iety is not only called a kind of spice, it 

 is more, and furnishes material for a good appetite, and other 

 productions. Mr. Arnold, of Pembroke, raised four hundred 

 and fifty bushels of turnips, grown in a season of severe 

 drought, when it was difficult to germinate the seed until late in 

 July. Martin Swift, of Bridgewater, brings excellent specimen 

 of winter wheat. Herman Delano likewise, both early and late 

 varieties. Beets were exhibited in perfection. Which is of the 

 greatest benefit to stock, — a mangel weighing twenty pounds, 

 or the turnip beet weighing ten ? This cannot be answered by 

 looking on the surface, but by analysis and careful experiment. 

 The dyked marsh has produced large crops of onions and 

 corn, the latter costing not more than thirty cents per bushel, 

 and produced without any special fertilizers. Very fine pota- 

 toes, the second crop on the the lot, cost about twenty-five 



