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VEGETABLES. 



The Committee would invite the personal attention of the 

 members of the Society, to the Eeport on Vegetables. The 

 subject is one in which the community has a personal interest, 

 and one that we trust will tell in the future, by an endeavor to 

 consider the quality of our farm products worthy the careful 

 attention of every farmer, rather than the desire to be chroni- 

 cled as the producer of some mammoth monstrosity unfit to be 

 eaten by man or beast. We award the first premium of diplo- 

 ma and $10 to J. J. H. Gregory, of Marblehead. 



MANURES. 



The report on Manures is one in which every farmer has a 

 personal interest. There is but little doubt that we suffer from 

 the want of a sufficient quantity of fertilizers for the breadth 

 of land under cultivation. He that will enable the fanner to 

 make a wise choice out of the many preperations that are offer- 

 ed to his notice may be considered a public benefactor. IVe 

 think the experiments of the author of this report, and his 

 ability to speak from his own experience worthy of the careful 

 thought of every agriculturalist. We award the second pre- 

 mium of eight dollars to James R. Nichols, of Haverhill. 



ROOT CROPS. 



This report seemed to your Committee of much importance, 

 and one in which every member of the Society has an interest. 

 " Like labor, will produce like results." The author has giv- 

 en his personal attention to the department assigned him, and 

 we think that the result of his labor will stimulate others to 

 try and improve upon the results furnished in this report. W« 

 recommend the third premium of $6 to Andrew Nichols, of 

 Danvers. 



Your Committee, in submitting their views on the matters 

 assigned them, do so with a sense of their inability to speak 



