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appearance. W. H. Olmstead, East Hartford: field corn. W. C. 

 Hart of West Cornwall: a long-eared yellow corn, similar to that 

 of Nathan Hart and T. S. Gold, early and productive. N. S. 

 Piatt of Cheshire: Long- John corn, seed from Georgia, a late 

 white corn. Theron E. Piatt, Stone-edge Farm, Newtown: corn 

 and grain. 



FROM green's farms FARMERS' CLUB. 



By Wm. J. Jennings: yellow Dent corn, white Dent corn, four 

 varieties sweet corn, one variety spring wheat, one variety rye, one 

 variety oats, one mammoth sunflower, one dish black walnuts, one 

 dish Southport red globe onions. 



By T. B. Wakeman: white onions, red onions, white onion seed, 

 red onion seed, yellow Dent corn, oats, buckwheat, Clawson wheat, 

 and choice Burbank potatoes. By J. Elwood : Baker apples, Ches- 

 ter county mammoth corn, Magnum-Bonum potatoes. N. H. 

 Sherwood: very large, fine carrots, and large yellow onions. 

 H. B. Wakeman: Baldwin apples, black apples, yellow Dent corn, 

 fine white onions, and Clawson wheat. D. H. Sherwood: fine 

 carrots and potatoes. Austin Jennings: Burbank potatoes, good ; 

 fine yellow, red, and white onions, and fine specimen ears of white 

 corn, S. B. Sherwood: Corn grown from seed of Agricultural 

 Department, Dent corn, white flint corn, pop corn, red and yellow 

 onions, Clawson wheat, oats and rye; all good. George Hale : 

 choice wheat and white corn. 



This was the second general display this club has made at the 

 winter meetings of the Board of Agriculture — the previous one at 

 Newtown, and this at Eockville — both reflecting great credit upon 

 the agriculture of Green's Farms, which may truly be called "The 

 garden of the State." 



There was also exhibited, by Phineas Stedman of Chicopee, 

 Mass., dairy apparatus, viz. : Moseley's cabinet creamery and the 

 barrel churn, tvhich attracted much attention. L. H. Reed, of 

 Tolland, the Davis swing churn and the Cooley creamer; both 

 well tried and well known in dairy circles. 



The American Mills, of Rockville, exhibited horse-blanket^ at 

 $4.25 each to members of the meeting, which were as good as $6 

 would purchase elsewhere. 



From Mr. Myrick, of the N. E. Homestead, a sample of the 

 new, much talked-of Sumatra tobacco. Also, from J. C. Ham- 



