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of most soils nearer than any other before discovered. The quan- 

 tity used is froip 300 to 600 lbs. per acre ; the cost is less than the 

 cartage of an equal amount in force of stable manure, if brought 

 for the distance of one mile. 



When your committee visited the farm, they found nine acres of 

 Indian corn growing, besides fields of oats, and potatoes. 73,000 

 Bergen and Dutch cabbages, were among the curiosities of this 

 farm. Five hundred pounds per acre of the improved super- 

 phosphate of lime was applied to the cabbage fields. His garden 

 crops were certainly very large. The committee saw raspberry 

 branches which had grown 19 feet during the current season. 

 Tliree hundred glass sashes had been put up in his garden ; beets, 

 parsnips, carrots, lettuce, radishes, onions, rhubarb, cauliflowers, 

 brocoli, spinach, kale, caulo-rapas, were growing luxuriantly. 



The modes of cultivation in some particulars were peculiar. 

 Tomatoes and Lima beans were shortened in, to render them ear- 

 lier, and with good results. A bed of Spanish peppers was bear- 

 ing three distinct sets of p:^db, the elfect of three different manur- 

 ings; the plants stood about two feet apart, on an average. Your 

 committee saw 30 peppers growing on many of the single plants. 



The garden and small fruits occupy about thirty acres, besides 

 the usual farm crops raised in adjacent fields. The vineyard con- 

 tains about 1,200 bearing vines of the Catawba, Isabella, Norton's 

 Seedling, and several other varieties. 



Four hundred dwarf pear trees grafted on the quince, and em- 

 bracing most of the improved varieties, were growing in his or- 

 chard. 



Eight thousand raspberry plants, together with strawberries, 

 including Hovey's Seedling, Boston Pine, British Queen, Prince 

 Albert, and many other varieties. 



The larger fruits were in fine order, consisting of apples, plums, 

 peaches, nectarines and apricots, free from insects. The bark of 

 the trees appeared smooth and healthy. 



The gooseberries, of which the Professor has choice varieties, 

 Jiooked remarkably well. 



