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B. Hathaway, Little Prairie Ronde - Apples. 



E. Bradfield, Ada (i rapes. 



A. A. Olds, .Hamilton - Apples. 



N. & 0. Chilson, Battle Creek - - Apples. 



H. Dale Adams, Galesburg Apples and Pears. 



Horticultural Dep't State Agricultural College, Lansing.. Potatoes. 

 N. Helling & Brothers, Battle Creek Apples. 



REPORTS OF CENTENNIAL JUDGES. 



The reports of the Centennial Judges on Fruit were written by Mr. Thomas 

 Median, with the approval of the following group of judges: W. L. Schaffer, 

 A. W. Harrison, Josiah Hoopes, Win. Parry, and Ed. Satterthwait. 



To the Michigan State Pomological Society an award was granted on the 

 recommendation of the Judges, for the following reasons: "That it exhibited 

 continuously from near the opening of the Exposition to its close, the fruits of 

 Michigan, furnishing thereby one of the most instructive and valuable features 

 of the Pomological Department.' 1 ' 



To H. Dale Adams, Galesburg, Mich., an award granted for the following 

 reasons: '-That his collection of sixty varieties of apples and sixteen of pears 

 exhibited during the week ending October 19, were of general excellence, the 

 Baldwin (twelve inches round), Jonathan, McClellan, Golden Russet, and Hop- 

 kins being superior to the average of these varieties." 



To Edward Bradfield, Ada, Mich., an award was granted for the following 

 reasons : '"That during the week ending October 19, 18 7G, he exhibited twenty- 

 five kinds * of grapes from his part of the State, and though growing in a district 

 Avhere vines have to be buried under ground in winter, were yet of general 

 excellence. 



To J. W. Humphrey, Plymouth., Wayne county, two awards were granted, 

 for the following reasons : 



1. For an excellent collection (forty-eight varieties) of exclusively summer 

 and autumn apples, including only recognized and useful varieties. 



2. That during the week ending Oct. 19, 187G, he exhibited a remarkably 

 fine collection of apples, embracing 170 varieties, correctly named, of good 

 flavor and high color. 



To the Horticultural Department State Agricultural College, Lansing, an 

 award was granted for the following reasons : 



This exhibit of 258 varieties of potatoes, forms a collection that is highly 

 instructive to the people of Michigan, and is therefore highly meritorious. 



The above are all the reports that have come to hand at the time of closing 

 this article. Personal application was made to General Walker, chief of the 

 Bureau of Awards, and cards sent to each exhibitor for copies of these reports. 

 General Walker refused the privilege of copying them. Mr. B. Hathaway, of 

 Little Prairie Ronde, wrote he had not received the report in his case, and no 

 reply was received from the balance of the exhibitors receiving awards, except 

 those whose exhibits are here reported on. The long and unreasonable delay 

 in publishing the reports of judges, or in permitting the press to publish them, 



* In a letter to the writer of this article, Mr. Bradfield says: " Below is a list of the grapes exhib. 

 ited by rue from my own vineyard : Iona, Israelis, Delaware, Diana, Concord, Eumelan, Clinton, Hart- 

 ford, Sigler, Walter, Corielle, Rogers' No. 4, No. 19, Salem, Concord Seedling, Allen's Hybrid, 

 Adirondack, Bradfield's Perfected, Cynthia, Creveling, Isabella, Taylor's Bullitt, Royal Muscadine, 

 Richard Bradfield's Seedling, York Madeira, Black Cluster, Alvey, Northern Muscadine, and Union 

 Village. You will perceive there are thirty varieties, but as there were two or three I could not 

 distinguish when they were unpacked, I called it twenty-live varieties." 



