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EOOT CROPS. 



The Committee went first to the "Cochichewick Farm," in 

 North Andover, owned by Mr. J. D. W. French, Potatoes, 

 Mangolds, and Ruta Bagas were the crops offered. There 

 were no other entries for the same kind of ves^etables. These 

 crops were all good, though not a very extra yield. The po- 

 tatoes were large, better to sell than to keep. The Commit- 

 tee award to Mr. French the premium of $10 for each of his 

 entries. 



The science which Mr. French has brought to bear upon 

 the surroundings, and conditions under which he farms, has 

 enabled him to unite the ornamental and practical, the artis- 

 tic and needful, the landscape beauty of good clean cultiva- 

 tion with the solid satisfaction of good crops and handsome 

 and productive cattle. The farm and the country seat are 

 well joined together in '"Cochichewick Farm." 



Daniel Carlton, of North Andover, comes next on the list. 

 Here we saw a very good crop of Onions, for which the Com- 

 mittee award him the Society's premium of $10. 



The conditions under which Mr. Carlton farms are very 

 different from the surroundings of Mr. French ; and yet Mr. 

 Carlton's agricultural science has enabled him to unite his 

 farm with a genuine New England farmer's home, a home in 

 which the sons seem to be content to remain and work with 

 the father. If any readers of this report have not a clear and 

 comprehensive idea of what a " farmer's home " means, let 

 them get Dr. Loring's Portland speech and learn what it 

 means. 



The next visit was to the form of Mr. Rufus Goodwin, 

 Ayer's Village. Here we saw a good crop of Onions, but 

 not as good as Mr. Carlton's. 



Mr. Goodwin's farm is very different from either Mr. 

 French's or Mr. Carlton's. It is a village farm of ten acres, 

 but with agricultural and mechanical science, Mr. GoodAvin is 

 uniting and wcldinof together, — machinist fashion, — all that 

 needs to be united in farm, garden, and home. 



