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Your committee would also state that the animals were all 

 fine-looking, and do honor to the farmers of the Cape. 



Z. D. BASSET, Chairman. 



Produce. 



The committee find several applicants for premiums on corn, 

 but as some have not harvested their corn crop, the committee 

 recommend that the award of premiums be deferred for the pres- 

 ent, and left for the action and decision of the Executive Com- 

 mittee. No application for premium on rye. 



We award to Joseph Bodfish, for the best experiment on 

 Oats, the first premium of $3, for thirty bushels on eighty-one 

 rods. 



Also to J. Bodfish, for the best growth of beans, $4, he having 

 raised six bushels on forty-eight rods. 



To Joseph Allyn, for the best onions, $3, he having raised 195 

 bushels on one fourth of an acre. 



And the committee recommend an award of $1 to Leonard 

 L. Lumbert, for a specimen of sweet potatoes. 



NATH'L HINCKLEY, Chairman. 



Fruit Trees. 



The committee on fruit trees have awarded, to Lot Hinckley, 

 of Barnstable, a premium of $3, for the best peach orchard. 

 Mr. Hinckley has 204 trees set since 1843, all in a healthy con- 

 dition. A part of the trees bore abundantly last year, but, this 

 year, the blossoms were destroyed by late frosts. 



Enoch Shove, of Sandwich, also entered his peach orchard of 

 53 trees, which are in a healthy and flourishing condition. 



To Seth F. Nye, of Sandwich, a premium of $2 for 27 en- 

 grafted pear trees. Specimens of Seckel, Louise Bonne de Jer- 



