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County to interest themselves in this branch of industry, and send 

 articles, combining beauty and utility, to the exhibition which shall 

 not only be creditable to themselves, but calculated to refine the 

 taste, and open new channels of activity and usefulness to many who 

 wish to secure to themselves an honorable independence. 

 For the Committee, 



Mrs. W. R. SUMNER. 



REPORT ON BREAD. 



The Committee on Bread having attended to the duty assigned 

 them, beg leave to make the following Report : 



There were offered for premiums 

 Of Wheat Bread, .... 18 specimens. 



Of Wheat and Indian, - - - - 2 " 



Of Unbolted Wheat, - - - - 1 " 



Of Rye and Indian, - - - - 10 " 



Your Committee adjudged the first premium for the best loaf of 

 Wheat Bread, — Three Dollars, — to Miss Mary F. Mollis, of Brain- 

 tree : 



And the second premium, — Two Dollars, — for thenextbestloafof 

 Wheat Bread, to Mrs. J. D. Howe, of Dedham. 



For Wheat and Indian Bread, we adjudged a second premium, — 

 Two Dollars, — to Sarah Davenport, of Milton. 



For the best loaf of Rye and Indian Bread we adjudged the 

 first premium, — Three Dollars, — to Mrs. P. Ruggles, of Milton; 



And the second premium — Two Dollars, — to Miss Amelia Hunt, 

 of Medway. 



Your Committee would state that several loaves of excellent bread 

 were not admitted to competition for premiums, because the condition 

 that the Bread offered should be made on the day pre\ious to the 

 Exhibition, had not been complied with. 



All which is respectfully submitted. 



For the Committee, 



EDMUND QUIXCY. 



