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I do not know whether this variety is 
entirely new or not, having never heard of 
it except in a modest four-line description 
and advertisement in a Seed Catalogue 
for 1884. I procured a few ounces of 
seed last spring which I planted on one- 
fifth an acre in the following manner. The 
soil was a gravelly loam, and had been 
pastured for several years. It was lightly 
manured last fall with coarse barn-yard 
manure and plowed. About June 6th it 
was re-plowed, thoroughly harrowed with 
a spring-tooth harrow (would not use any 
other) and marked out with a corn plow 
five feet apart each way. A small shovel¬ 
ful of barn-yard manure was placed in each 
hill. On this was sprinkled about a table¬ 
spoonful of Buffalo Bone Phosphate mixed 
with an equal quantity of gypsum. This 
was lightly covered with soil and two seeds 
planted in each hill. Nearly every seed 
germinated, producing very strong, healthy 
plants. When hoed the second time, they 
were thinned to one plant in a hill. They 
made a wonderfully vigorous and rapid 
growth. For some unexplained and un¬ 
known reason, the striped bug, squash borer 
and black pumpkin bug gave them a wide 
berth, although I had to fight them unre¬ 
mittingly on my melon and cucumber 
fields adjoining. The vines completely 
covered the ground, running through and 
over a stone wall on one side of the field. 
Now for the result. From that one-fifth of 
an acre, I had four large two-horse wagon 
loads of very handsome little squashes, 
weighing from two to four pounds each, 
yielding 114 pounds of seed. Although the 
season in Northern New York has been cold 
and exceedingly dry, yet every squash fully 
ripened. 
We commenced using them for the table 
about August 15. At that time they were 
not fully grown, but we found them dry 
with an exceedingly sweet flavor. Their 
superior as a late summer and early fall 
variety has yet to be found, and their equal 
I never expect to see. On some single 
plants I counted as high as twenty perfect 
squashes. In color they are a rich, creamy 
yellow with a few scattering rusty knots. 
The flesh is slightly tinged with green, and 
fine grained. 
I think I am fully justified in predicting 
that this little “Brazil Sugar” when more 
fully known, will be the leading summer 
and early fall variety for table use. 
The seed very strongly resembles that of 
White Bush Scallop, although a little larger. 
If the vines prove to be bug and borer- 
proof, as 1 strongly believe they are, it will 
be a valuable variety to grow for stock¬ 
feeding purposes. I fed a few Holstein 
cows a bushel each a day for several weeks. 
They not only made a perceptible gain in 
flesh during that time, but gave a greatly 
increased quantity of milk, from which 
was made a quality of butter that several 
experts pronounced far superior in color, 
texture and taste to any they had ever test¬ 
ed. Among others, I would refer to Hon. 
N. S. Carlisle, of Genesee, Ill., (now Sheriff 
of Kane Co.,) to whom I sold the entire in¬ 
crease of my Holstein herd this season. 
While here in October, he inquired as to 
our method of making butter, saying he 
had been among the Jersey butter-makers, 
and had visited some of the most noted 
creameries in the west, but “the butter on 
your table is the very best I have yet seen.” 
I think no one will dispute my statement, 
who is in the least acquainted with the 
herd, that the Holstein cow is rapidly com¬ 
ing to the front as a beef, milk, cheese and 
butter producer, and that these qualities 
are combined in her in a greater degree 
than in any other known breed. But like 
all other cows she is susceptible to the in¬ 
fluence of her feed in determining the 
quality and quantity of all the above 
named products. 
From this one year’s experience, I am 
fully satisfied that the Brazil Sugar Squash 
will “just fill the bill” during its season for 
cheap butter-producing food. I write all 
this for the sole purpose of calling the at¬ 
tention of my brother seedsmen and stock¬ 
breeders to what I look upon as a very val¬ 
uable product. To save any unnecessary 
correspondence, I wish to say that I have 
not a single ounce of seed for sale. 
West Hebron , Wash. Co., N. T. 
Children are the life of the family and the hope of 
nations. That is indeed a gloomy old age which 
cannot delight in children. 
