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 REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SMALL FRUITS. 



Your committee received two entries of small fruits — 

 one entiy of raspberries from Mr. John C. Day of Haver- 

 hill, the otlier a crop of strawberries from Mr. Oscar 

 Gowen of West Newbury. Mr. Day's raspberries showed 

 an excellent growth of cane and berries, but he was de- 

 prived some afterwards of picking on account of excessive 

 rains so softening the berries that they were not market- 

 able and dropped from the bushes. Mr. Day judges he 

 would have had over six hundred boxes if it had not been 

 for the excessive lains. 



The committee award him the first premium of $S. 



The committee visited Mr. Gowen's strawberries June 

 21. The heat was almost unendurable, and the berries 

 were very soft. We found a very even and thrifty growth 

 of vines, the berries were large, sweet, and well shaped, 

 but ripening very slowly, but there were plenty of green 

 berries to follow. One ver}^ noticeable feature of the bed 

 was the absence of weeds. Your Committee cheerfully 

 recommend Mr. Gowen the first premium of $8. 



Edwin Bates, George M. Roundy — Oommittee. 



STATEMENT OF STRAWBERRIES GROWN BY OSCAR 

 GOWEN OF WEST NEWBURY. 



The piece of land which I enter for premium contains 

 125 rods, is a dark loam, clay subsoil. In 1899 was 

 ploughed sod land and planted to cabbage, six cords of 

 barnyard manure to the acre. In 1900 was manured at 

 the late of eight cords to the acre and set to strawber- 

 ries. 



