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EXHIBITIONS OF FARMERS' CLUBS AND FRUIT 

 GROWERS' ASSOCIATIONS. 



For several years past there has been a committee of " Del- 

 egates," chosen l)y this Society, " To attend Exhibitions of 

 Farmers' Clubs and Fruit Growers' Associations in Essex 

 County, and to report any information that shall seem to them 

 valuable for publication in its Transactions." For tlie two 

 past seasons I have had the honor of being chairman on that 

 committee, and have endeavored, but failed, to get more than 

 two members together at any one exhibition. As these exhi- 

 bitions have generally been held for two or more days and 

 evenings — coming as they do at a very busy season of the 

 year — it has been impossible for the committee, except in one 

 instance, to meet together at any exhibition, during the whole 

 two years. Then again, your chairman has been unable to 

 confer with the other members, and presuming that each and 

 every one has attended to his own special duties and responsi- 

 bilities, and is well [>repared with subject matter for a report — 

 I would suggest that in future, if this committee is continued, 

 each member write his own report, over his own signature, for 

 publication in the " Transactions "; and I would take this op- 

 portunity to tliank the Society, kindly, for the honor it has 

 bestowed upon me, in electing me tlie second time, upon this 

 committee ; but knowing my own inefficiency, must decline a 

 nomination for the " third term." 



Owing to the severe drought and short crops of fruit and 

 vegetables in 1882, only two of these exhibitions, to my 

 knowledge, were held, viz., in Salem and Newburyport ; and 

 during the past season there have been four: in West New- 

 bury, Haverhill and Bradford, Amesbury and Salisbury, at 

 Newburyport, and in Ipswich. The writer of this has attend- 

 ed them all, and without specifying any one, or any particular 

 thing, would say that they were all good, very good. Such 



