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RFPORT ON THE DAIRY. 



Butter. 



For the best box of butter of 20 pounds, first premium of $10 to 

 Edmund T. Everett, of Wrentham. 



Second premium of $8 to Misses Lucy and Mary INIorse, of Med- 

 field. 



For the best box of 12 pounds, first premium of $5 to Misses 

 Lucy and Mary Morse, of Medfield. 



Second premium of %o to Mrs. A. Lynch, of Dedham. 



Third premium, " FHnt's Treatise on the Dairy," to John Mans- 

 field, of Needham. 



Cheese. 

 To James P. Clark, of Medway, for the best cheese, $5. 



JEREMIAH W. GAY, Chairman. 

 Dedham, Sept. 28, 1860. 



REPORT ON VEGETABLES AND ROOT CULTURE. 



The Committee on Roots and Vegetables report that the pre- 

 miums oifered by the Society for the best conducted experiments 

 in raising difibrent vegetables, do not seem to have attracted the 

 notice of cultivators, inasmuch as, among the great variety exhib- 

 ited, in not a single case was any statement of the mode of culture 

 submitted. 



There Avas a very handsome collection of garden vegetables from 

 various sources, and the Committee had no hesitation in awarding 

 the Society's first premium, a silver cup, of the value of $10, to 

 James Cartwright, of West Needham. 



Second premium of $5 to Augustus Parker, of Roxbury. 



Third premium of |4 to Geo. R. Sampson, of Brookline. 



Fourth premium of $3 to Eliphalet Stone, of Dedham. 



Fifth premium of $2 to Chas. A. Hewins, of West Roxbury. 



Sixth premium of $1 to Benj. White, of Milton. 



In conclusion, the Committee make honorable mention of vege- 

 tables contributed by the following parties : A. M. Cashier, S. 

 Hovle, B. F. Baker, I. Policy, G. Force, S. Carroll, of Dedham, 

 B. ■'N. Sawin, C. Sullivan, C. Guy, of Dover, C. Smith, of Dor- 

 chester, R. Porter, Jr., of Stoughton, A. D. Weld, A. W. Aus- 

 tin, of West Roxbury, I. Perry, W. Cobb, of Sharon, G. Williams, 

 of Medfield. 



EPHRAIM WILSON, Chairman. 



Dover, Sejjt. 28, 1860. 



