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During the last year he has raised and sold garden seeds to the 

 amount of $600. Of cold-frame planis $1 ,800 were sold from the 

 garden. 



When your committee visited the farm, there was growing four 

 acres of Stowe^i's Ever-green corn, tlie seed of which sold last 

 year at the rate of $1 per quart ; three acres of beets, four acres 

 of potatoes, (Mammoth Nutmeg variety,) four acres of carrots and 

 oats together. The method of cultivation was as follows : The 

 field was first plowed and subsoiled deep for root crops ; the oats 

 were first sowed broad-cast and harrowed in ; the field was then 

 laid off in drills suitable for a carrot crop, the seed was then 

 sown, the oats and carrots grew up together, but the oats shaded 

 the carrots so, that when they were cradled oflf the field, t]:e car- 

 rots then first commenced a vigorous growtli, and produced a 

 heavy crop for the fall gathering. One thousand poles of Lima 

 beans. 



Your committee have been enabled to obtain a statistical ac- 

 count of the productions of this farm from year to year. Prof. 

 Mapes went on the farm about five years since. The cost of the 

 farm thus far, has been upwards of sixteen thousand dollars ; this 

 has been all paid for by the produce of the farm alone, besides 

 stocking the farm and procuring farming utensils, and fencing. 



The Professor encourages the appearance of birds upon his farm 

 and gardens. On an apple tree, adjacent to his dwelling house, 

 were put up four wren boxes, each of which were inhabited by a 

 family. He had put up about 300 of these boxes in his orchard, 

 every one of which was occupied. Tiie birds are complete sca- 

 vengers among insects. Take it all in all, your committee are 

 satisfied that Prof. Mapes' method of cultivation is superior to 

 most other agriculturists ; his grape vines and peach trees grow 

 luxuriant. The improved super-pho5]ihate of lime is evidently 

 an extraordinary manure ; its effects are marked, the Profetsor 

 combining science with practical husbandry in an unusual degree, 

 and its results are uncGmmon'y great. 



