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3568 boxes at 17 cts., $606.56 



The cost of working the crop, picking, and marketing 



for the present season, was as fullovvs : 



Cultivating and hoeing, $20.00 



Hay and mulching, 10.00 



Pruning, . 12.00 



Picking and marketing, at 5 cts. per box, 178 40 



220.40 



Net profit, $386.16 



The Committee will notice that the cost of picking and 

 marketing is just about twice as much as it would be for the 

 same amount of strawberries. 



Haverhill, Sept., 1881. 

 This certifies that I measured a piece of ground on which 

 the above crop was raised, and found it to contain one acre 

 and twenty-five rods. Geo. E. Farnsworth. 



NEW VARIETY OF WINTER APPLES. 



Your committee, Joseph How, John 0. Brien, R. P. 

 Waters, Aaron Low, and Paul M. Islesly were all, except Mr. 

 Waters, present at the late exhibition at Haverhill and con- 

 sidered the subject of Mr. Alfred Ordway's seedling apples, 

 the subject of which has been before the Committee for three 

 years in view of his receiving the Society's one hundred dollar 

 premium. 



The committee were unanimous in the opinion that although 

 the apples may be worthy of cultivation, still they are not 

 equal to the varieties with which they are compared, viz., the 

 Baldvvin and Roxbury Russet, consequently they are not 

 entitled to the premium. 



The writer has made further inquiry about the Red Russet 

 which has caused so much discu.ssion, and finds much differ- 

 ence of opinion in regard to their value. Some persons think 

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