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bottom of the soil not reached. A moderate amount of 

 dressing is used, good seed of Mr. Mann's production 

 planted. Hardly a space of six inches in any of the rows 

 where you could not tind a fine silver skin. They were 

 very uniform in size and but few very small stock could be 

 seen. 



Let it be borne in mind here that some of the most un- 

 promising spots to which we attach little or no importance 

 whatever, have in them the elements of the greatest produc- 

 tiveness and permanent value. And it should be the aim 

 of every farmer to do something to reclaim these waste 

 places. 



In the afternoon we found ourselves in Ayers Village, 

 Haverhill, and made a call upon Mr. Rufus Goodwin. This 

 gentleman has a small farm, but makes every inch of it 

 count, the same spot yielding two and even three crops per 

 year. Even the stone wall was covered with cultivated 

 grapes of different variety, and loaded with the luscious 

 fruit. 



The special object of our visit was to see his crop No. 3, 

 Goodwin's seedling potato entered for premium. 



He had dug most of the crop. Enough, however, were 

 left to show us a sample of the vine and the appearance of 

 the potato when just dug. Vine small, potato near top of 

 ground, smooth and not showing much sign of rot. We 

 saw a pile of them in the cellar, some of which showed more 

 marks of decay. This crop was raised from the small 

 potatoes of the previous year and so on back. Mr. Good- 

 win has made great effort to bring forward a seedling 

 which shall be a standard potato. His efforts are very 

 commendable, and we are not sure but he has one which 

 will prove to be such. This year, from some cause unknown 

 to us, his crop seems to be undersize as a whole, more than 

 one-third being under No. 1, while those of this grade were 

 only average in size, and while wc might look favorably 

 upon this as a new specimen of the potato, we could not 

 award premiums upon such ground, but only upon the con- 

 sideration of the crop itself. 



