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done in every case, and some excellent results were secured as 

 shown by the reports which follow. 



Edward F. Parsons of North Amherst raised 3,990 pounds 

 of hay and rowen on one acre as a first crop after corn. Wilson 

 Walker of Marlborough, on one and one-twelfth acres cut 6,202 

 pounds of hay from a six-year-old meadow. The rowen was 

 pastured, Elliott Taylor of Shelburne raised 9,815 pounds of 

 hay and rowen on an acre newly seeded on old turf land. 



Market Garden Cluh. 

 The Market Garden Club bids fair to become the money pro- 

 ducer. It permits both diversified and specialized production. 

 It also allows for succession of crops during the growing season. 

 This factor alone gives the market gardener a strong advantage 

 over the grower of an all-season crop. Many of the short-term 

 crops are also small in foliage. This makes interplanting pos- 

 sible, thus enabling the gardener to use nearly the entire sur- 

 face of the land. The exceedingly close planting possible with 

 such vegetables as chard and celery puts the market garden in 

 a class by itself as a money maker. This is especially true where 

 a good local market is available which permits of the sale and 

 delivery of the vegetables fresh from the garden. This point is 

 well illustrated in the case of Richard W. Arms of Hopkinton 

 who won first prize in market gardening. This young man set 

 a plot of 8 square rods to celery on July 3, 5 and 7, on which 

 he used $2.65 worth of manure and fertilizer. He set 2,200 

 plants. The cost of tillage and hired labor amounted to $1.15 

 up to October 12. He began selling September 24, and by the 

 end of October his account showed a net profit of $85.75 from 

 one-twentieth of an acre. While this is exceptional, it shows 

 what the possibilities are under favorable conditions. It also 

 illustrates the desirability of getting green vegetables direct to 

 the consumer in order to realize the best results. 



Canning Cluh. 

 A small amount of experimental work was begun in this line 

 with a few of the boys and girls in Amherst. A group of 16 

 was provided with a small tract on the college campus. Each 



