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made by those veteran ladies who have contributed to the Fairs 

 through a long series of years, thus showing that their hands have 

 not lost the skill, nor their hearts the freshness of earlier years. 

 Articles were also contributed by mere children, which exhibit 

 taste, industry and ambition to be useful. As an illustration of 

 the manner in which youth and old age have vied with each other, 

 a pair of childrens' hose, very neat, were knit by a girl seven years 

 of age, while a note appended to a pair of men's stockings, inform 

 your Committee that the yarn was spun, colored and knit by a 

 lady eighty-five years of age, having the sight of only one eye." 



Crops. — Fine specimens of grain, traces of corn, and extensive 

 varieties of garden vegetables and other crops were exhibited, and 

 from the statements made to the Committee I take the following : 

 Hall Bagley of Charleston, produced 411 bushels wheat from two 

 acres, with a profit of $68.00 ; 49 bushels barley from one acre, 

 profit $35.44 ; T9| bushels oats from one acre, and from another 

 acre 120 bushels ears of corn with a profit of $42.00. Jacob W. 

 Haskell of Garland, produced 45 bushels wheat from two acres, 

 and 110 bushels ears corn from one acre. N. & G. Oak of Exeter, 

 produced from 3| acres, 71 bushels wheat; and from one acre, 25 

 bushels. Abner Brooks of Corinna, produced 38 bushels wheat 

 from one acre, E. L. French of Exeter, 30 bushels wheat from one 

 acre. John Campbell of Corinth, 26 bushels wheat from one acre, 

 and 186 bushels ears of corn. from two acres. William Grinnell of 

 Exeter, 25 bushels wheat from one acre, profit $38.15; from an- 

 other acre 120 bushels ears corn. James Skillin of Garland, 23 J 

 bushels wheat from half an acre, profit $28.83. E. B. Stackpole 

 of Kenduskeag, 25| bushels wheat from | acre, profit $34.00; 18 

 bushels ears corn from 124 square rods, profit $51.25 ; If bushels 

 beans from |acre, profit $15.31; '501 bushels potatoes from 3J 

 acres, profit 132.15; and 93 bushels potatoes from ^ acre, profit 

 $26.35. E. F. Crane of Kenduskeag, 62| bushels barley from one 

 acre, profit $49.50, and 15 bushels oats from another acre, profit 

 $43.15. John Bagley of Corinth, 51 bushels barley from one acre, 

 profit $43.15, and 14 bushels beans from | acre, profit $21.25. 

 Crosby Clement of Kenduskeag, 41 bushels barley from one acre, 

 profit $33.30, and 108 bushels potatoes from | acre, profit $50.10.. 

 Chester Weld of Kenduskeag, 62 bushels buckwheat from two 

 acres, profit $25.00, and 205 bushels potatoes from one acre, profit 

 $35.00. Winthrop Chapman of Exeter, 83^ bushels oats from one 

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