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Mr. Webster — I kiiuw of no other business in wliich tliere is 

 so much fraud and dece{)tion practiced. \ have adopted the phm of 

 selling to local dealers, who sell direct to farmers. These men go 

 over the same territory, and sell to the same parties year after year, 

 which is a guarantee of honest dealing. But they cannot compete 

 with the peddlers. 



Mr. Kellogg — Tne chain nursery humbug of Ohio is the mod- 

 ern tree peddler's glory. The agents of these nurseries tried their 

 game in our State, but our people learned of their misrepresenta- 

 tions and refused to take the trees, and the agents made no effort to 

 compel them to do so. 



Mr. Robison, Kansas — Tree peddlers are possibly a blessing in 

 disguise, as they induce men to plant trees who would never go to 

 the nursery and get them. In our State they are liable to 

 prosecution if they effect sales by misrepresentation. One of these 

 agents came into our County and showed orders with my name at- 

 tached. I persuaded the parties who had been victimized to apply 

 for a warrant, when the fellow took a hasty leave. 



The Committee on Awards in Class IV made the following re- 

 port, which, on motion, was adopted: 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE OX CLASS IV— VECxETABLES. 



Your committee find forty entries in this class, three of which 

 embrace respectively, twenty-one, twenty-two and thirty-two 

 varieties of vegetables. The growers of Jacksonville, Hamilton and 

 Alton have nuxde a friendly but very spirited competition. 



Best Displai/ — Albert Halley, Jacksonville, tirst premium; 

 Henrv Hcmple, .tacksonville, second premium. 



Best Half Peck Early Potatoes — J. S. Browne, Alton, first 

 premium; C. B. Bockvvell, Hamilton, second premium. 



Best Half Peck Potatoes for Winter and Spring — J. S. Browne, 

 Alton, first premium; A. L. Hay. Jacksonville, second premium. 



Best Half Peck Seedling Onions — C. B. Rockwell, Hamilton, 

 first premium. 



The committee find three entries of onions, but under the rules 

 of the Executive Board we can award Init one premium. There is 

 evidently a misap])rehension on the part of two of the exhibitors, 

 who have exhibited each one peck of sets, that is, small onions for 

 setting to grow onions, while the Executive Committee designed the 

 exhibition of edible onions grown from black seed. 



