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of the Society, and of cultivators generally, to the statement 

 of Mr. J. J. H. Gregory of Marblehead, whose large crop of 

 Turban squashes bears favorable testimony to his skillful mode 

 of cultivation. Although the fruit crop has also failed, still the 

 earth has yielded bounteously to the husbandman ; and an un- 

 usually active market has enabled him to overcome the ob- 

 stacles which scanty and expensive labor has thrown in his 

 way. It is a fact worthy of notice that the markets of Mary- 

 land have been supplied this autumn with beets, turnips, car- 

 rots and cabbages from the farms of Essex county. 



The great agricultural trial among us this year, has been the 

 securing of our hay crop. In the early part of the season 

 grass was so light as to promise, even on the best field, hardly 

 more than half a crop, and that too, hay of a half matured and 

 veiy inferior quality. It was not until the haying season had 

 begun, and, with some of the small farmers, had gone, that 

 the grass began to grow. And the unusual and extraordinary 

 spectacle was presented in August, of a scanty crop of herds- 

 grass already over ripe, through which was growing another 

 thick and luxuriant crop, destined to constitute a large part of 

 the hay of the season. And even this latter growth came to 

 maturity, before the rains were over, and an opportunity was 

 furnished for late hay-making. The second crop on well culti- 

 vated fields was very large. From the first of August onward, 

 grass grew apace. Pastures became suddenly luxuriant. Fall 

 feed has been more than sufficient for all our wants. And the 

 extraordinary warmth of autumn has continued on into the 

 winter months. On the third of December, at the time of 

 writing this, store cattle, horses and sheep find abundant feed 

 in the pastures and fields, and weather mild enough for their 

 out-door subsistance. And at this date, we know of no dairy 

 stock which has been permanently housed for the winter. It 

 would be difficult to estimate the amount of fodder, grain, roots, 

 etc., which our farmers have saved through this beneficent or- 

 der of Providence. The stock of hay, inferior and damaged 



