36 WASHINGTON COUNTY SOCIETY. 



in this county, and what there is is owned so far from the place of 

 holding the fair that it is not at the exhibition. 



The entries of farm and garden products were not so large nor 

 so good in quantity or quality as in former years. Of apples there 

 were thirty-six entries, most of them very nice, although not so 

 lax-ge as in some seasons. Eleven entries of plums, four of grapes 

 and four of cranberries. Ruta-bagas were well represented and 

 quite large. Whole number of entries of grains, seeds, fruit, 

 vegetables, &c, 141. 



Fourteen entries of butter and two of cheese all good and some 

 extra nice. One hundred and five entries in the ladies' depart- 

 ment ; whole number of entries of manufactures, 151. 



Field crops are entered at the annual meeting which takes place 

 on the third Wednesday of November. George 0. Lincoln reports 

 38 bushels barley from one acre, Edwin E. Fisher 37J, and Luther 

 Lakin 26 bushels. Thomas C. Batson reports 48|, Thomas Rob- 

 inson 38, and Merrill Sprague 32^ bushels oats from one acre 

 each. Luther Lakin reports 30 bushels buckwheat from one acre ; 

 Leonard Fisher 43 bushels from 285 rods. William F. Waterman 

 reports 63 baskets ears of corn and 700 pumpkins from \ acre. 

 George 0. Lincoln reports 9| bushels beans from \ acre ; H. A. 

 Sprague 5 bushels and 19 quarts; James Owens, Jr., 5| bushels 

 from \ acre each. Merrill Sprague reports 7 6-10 bushels and 

 James Owens, Jr., 7 bushels peas from \ acre each. Thomas 

 Robinson reports 239 bushels ruta bagas from \ acre, equal to 956 

 bushels per acre. Wm. L. Smith, Jr., reports 205 bushels and 

 Luther Lakin 200 bushels from \ acre each. James Owens, Jr., 

 reports 132 bushels and Leonard Fisher 110 bushels Jackson 

 White potatoes from \ acre each. Wm. L. Smith, Jr., reports 

 204 bushels potatoes from 94 rods, equal to 347 bushels to the 

 acre. Thomas Robinson 171 bushels from \ acre, equal to 342 to 

 the acre, and Leonard Fisher 131 bushels from \ acre. The three 

 last named crops of potatoes were not Jackson Whites but Early 

 Rose, and other kinds that are more easily raised than Jacksons. 

 Our society did not offer any special premium on Early Rose 

 potatoes, thinking them not equal to the Jackson, but this year 

 they have gone ahead of the Jackson Whites. 



Hay was a bigger crop this year than we have had for two 



years past, but was not so well put in on account of wet weather. 



But little wheat is raised in this county, most of the farmers 



thinking it not profitable to raise. Barley and oats were good ; 



