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Best 3 pumpkins, E. U. Knapp, Grand Rapids, §0 50 



Best mammoth squashes, A. Durfee, Grand Rapids, 50 



Best winter squashes, T. Dean, Walker, 50 



Best 3 watermelons, Seymour & Baldwin, Grand Rapids, 50 



The committee were informed by Mr. Wheeler, that his wheat is the 

 China variety, and suffered but little by the insects, while all other 

 wheat raised by himself and ncighboi's was injured very materially. 



Besides the articles entered for competition, the committee noticed a 

 very fine lot of six varieties of potatoes, viz: White mercer, blue mesh- 

 anics, bread. Carter, Mexican, and late kidney. Also a number of very 

 large and beautiful squashes, from the garden of W. S. H. Welton. A 

 few stalks of remarkable eared corn, and a sample of Rocky Mountain 

 corn, deserve honorable mention. As they were not labeled, the com- 

 mittee were not aware by whom they were exhibited. One specimen 

 of corn, they believe, by J. W. Sligh. 



The committee take this opportunity to urge upon the farmers of 

 Grand River Valley the importance of more extensively cultivating veg- 

 etables generally, and especially roots. The committee found only a 

 single sample of carrots on exhibition, and they would recommend farm- 

 ers to bring in for exhibition such articles as they have succeeded well 

 in producing. This would make our fairs more interesting and instruc- 

 tive, reminding hundreds of our farmers that they too might have the 

 advantages of growing such crops. A farmer remarked to the com- 

 mittee that he had raised oats weighing more than fifty pounds to the 

 busbel. By bringing samples of such grain to our fairs, much would 

 be done to improve our varieties, and render agriculture a much more 

 lucrative and pleasant profession. 



A. L. CHUBB, 

 F. A. MARSH, 



Committte. 



FRUITS AND FRUIT TREES. 



Best and greatest variety of autumn apples, Hiram Rhodes, Ada, $1 GO 

 2d best '• •' Wm. 0. Iloughtaling, 75 



Best and greatest variety of winter apples, Hiram Rhodes, Ada, 1 00 



