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grove, whicli had become tame by feeding, and by social and kind 

 treatment. 



Mr. Coleman's farm is now filled with luxuriant crops, abun- 

 dance of fruit, and a large number of j'oung trees just coming 

 into bearing. 



The location of this farm is undoubtedly superior in many res- 

 pects ; it is adjacent to Jamaica Bay, and on the easterly side of 

 Long Island, a short distance of two miles from the ocean. Sloops 

 come to a dock erected on his farm. 



Mr. Coleman raised this season past sixteen acres* of potatoes; 

 they were of the Mercer and Western red varieties, looked un- 

 usually well on the ground, the vines were free from disease, and 

 filled abundantly with blossoms; the crop produced was from 150 

 to 200 bushels per acre ; they were valued at 87^ cents per 

 bushel. He also raised five acres of turnips as a second crop on 

 the ground when he dug his early potatoes ; the turnips yielded 

 450 bushels per acre. He raised 2^ acres of winter wheat, .pro- 

 duction 50 bushels per acre ; four acres of Indian corn, produc- 

 tion 150 bushels of ears per acre; one acre of sweet corn; half 

 an acre of Lima beans; one acre of carrots ; one-third of an acre 

 of cabbages ; two acres of spinach; fifteen thousand celery plants ; 

 one acre of strawberries ; Hovey's seedling and Boston pine ; they 

 were in full bearing when your committee saw them; they pro- 

 duced very large fruit of a good flavor, and many of them ap- 

 proaching the size of Madeira nuts. Mr. Coleman plants his 

 strawberries in hills about two feet apart, dressed in. the fal} sea- 

 son with barn-yard manure, and with a light covering with Sea- 

 weed to protect the plants from frost and snow. In the spring it 

 is raked off. Weeding and trimming are the only care required 

 to produce a luxuriant crop. Your committee would recommend 

 this method of cultivating the strawberry, as economical and 

 practical. There were also in his garden a bed of four hundred 

 plants of raspberries; these produce an abundance of fruit. He 

 has set out in his orchard six hundred pear trees, grafted on the - 

 quince stock ; these are of choice varieties, of which one hundred 

 were in bearing ; one hundred apple trees were bearing grafted 

 fruit. Mr. Coleman adopts the plan of plowing among his apple 



