The Committee would call the attention of the Society to 

 the following statement made by Mr. J. J. H. Gregory of Mar- 

 blehead, with regard to his crop of Turban Squashes, entered 

 for premium. The suggestions of Mr. Gregory with regard to 

 the cultivation of the Squash, the mode of manuring, planting, 

 thinning the vines, &c'., are worthy of careful consideration — 

 particularly at this time when the crop has so extensively failed 

 under other hands than his own. 



The Committee, to whom he has presented his vouchers for 

 measurement of land, and weight of crop, award him the first 

 premium of $8. 



GEO. B. LORING, Chair'n, ^ 

 mCH'D S. ROGERS, 

 M. C. ADAMS, 

 CHARLES L. TOZIER, 



> Committee. 



MR. GREGORY'S STATEMENT. 



I find on a survey of the land planted to Turban Squashes, 

 an area of 20,313 feet, as per accompanying certificate. Last 

 year this tract was planted in part to Marrow Squashes, and the 

 remainder to seed cabbage, receiving no manure broadcast, and 

 one handful of Coe's Superphosphate of Lime to each hill or 

 plant. The past season it received a passable dressing broad- 

 cast of barn yard manure, which was ploughed under by the 

 large " Lynn " plough, and the soil when sufficiently dry was 

 well harrowed. At about the twentieth of May the hills were 

 marked off at distances of about 8 by 9 feet, and half a handful 

 of Coe's Superphosphate applied to each hill, it being spread over 

 a space of about 18 inches in diameter and well worked in with 



