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or garden that ■will grow, and leave little or nothing there to en- 

 courage the succeeding crop, — who would carry on the manure in 

 a wheelbarrow and take off the crop in a hay cart. Many of us 

 have neighbors who plough and manure, plant and hoe, and har- 

 vest a crop from three or four, six or eight acres annually, who 

 never did and never Avill cultivate a single acre, or raise a crop 

 equal to the capacity of the soil they pretend to improve. Let 

 such men visit Mr. Stearns — see what they will not be prepared to 

 believe, and go home and astonish themselves. Let them copy 

 the best cultivators, and all of them can exhibit as handsome beets, 

 as straight carrots and parsnips, large cabbages, smooth turnips, 

 yellow pumpkins and as big squashes as the most successful con- 

 tributors at our best shows. Let the Trustees of our Society be a 

 little more liberal and offer greater inducements for the exhibition 

 of vegetables, and we shall hereafter have an exhibition in no re- 

 spect inferior to the best we have ever had. 

 For the Committee, 



AARON D. CAPEN. 



REPORT ON HORSES. 



The Committee on Horses, having attended to the duties as- 

 signed them, beg leave to offer the following Report : 



Thorough Bred Horses. 



No Horse entitled to either first or second premium. 



To Brown & Merrill, of Roxbury, for " Trustee, Jr." the 



Society's Diploma and third premium of . . . |^5.00 



To Phillips & Hammond, of Brookline, for " Sultan," the 



Society's Diploma. 

 To Capt. John Codman, of Dorchester, for " Omar Pacha," 



the Society's Diploma. 



Part Thorough Brcds — two years. 



To J. H. Billings, of West Roxbury, for Horse Colt, the 



Society's Diploma, and first premium of . . . 3.00 

 Second and third premiums not given. 



One Year. 



To A. L. Cashing, of Randolph, Society's Diploma, and 



first premium of . . . . . . • 3.00 



To Joshua Wilkins, of Dorchester, second premium of . 2.00 



