“Benjamin P. Ware thought it due to the lecturer to say a few words in recognition of him.  He had taken two positions: he had discarded the plow and stable manure, and the speaker thought it was not right to let such fallacies go abroad without any expression of dissent.  But he has proved that a family can be supported on a poor farm.  Now, however, he has come round and uses the plow and stable manure.  Mr. Ware said the Crimson clover is not useful here; cow peas are.  He cautioned against planting cabbages where pigs have fed off the Crimson clover; they will all be stump-footed.  In answer to an inquiry by the lecturer, as to what he would plant in such  place, Mr. Ware replied that sweet corn or melons would grow there.”

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Transactions of Massachusetts Horticultural Society, by the Society, 1899, page 107