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supposed by citizens, that farmers obtained great prices for their 

 produce; they judged by the high rates of provisions in New- 

 York Washington market and others ; but it was not the case ; 

 farmers cannot have the huckster high prices. He could make 

 a thousand dollars per acre, at huckster rates. A farmer is not 

 allowed to take his wagonload of provision to market and to sell 

 them. Chickens were selling in Washington market at seven 

 shillings a pair (87^ cts.), and yet he was oflfered by a New- York 

 huckster seventeen cents a pair I 



The committee were highly gratified with their visit. Prof. 

 Mapes is willing at all times to impart whatever information he 

 is possessed of. He is a practical as well as a scientific farmer. 



Respectfully submitted. 



PAUL STILLMAN, 

 P. ZIMMERMAN, 

 AMOS GORE, 

 JOHN HINCHMAN, 

 A. MOSS, 

 H. COWING, 



Committee. 



Mr. Gore — The professor's farm has been without rain for about 

 eight weeks, and yet its crops are superior. 



Prof. Mapes — My peppers were transplanted after the surface 

 of the soil was dry as ashes, and the pepper is rather difficult of 

 transplantation; owing to the deep tillage of my land, the pepper 

 flourished as well as in any other season. 



Mr. Gore— I saw some weeds there, and they had a luxurious 

 growth. 



Mr. Meigs has observed, many years, that weeds are not so 

 hardy as our useful plants in general. I have sometimes seen 

 red root suffer more than my useful plants ; their roots are 

 usually short ; growing, as they do, in a state of nature, where 

 the land was never tilled, they have the fixed habit of short and 

 surface roots. 



