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though you have done well, still let your motto be that of the 

 Illinois children, " We'll do better yet another year ! " 



Respectfully submitted, 



SUSIE B. STEVENS, 



for Committee. 



FIELD AND GARDEN VEGETABLES, AND SEEDS. 



Our Annual Fair was held a month earlier the past season 

 and while we were suffering from a drought as severe as we 

 have seen for the past twenty years. The interest in the 

 Vegetable and Grain Department seemed to decline a little, 

 the entries not reaching the maximum of former j^ears. Pros- 

 perity for ten years made the phrases " best and excellent " 

 common from year to year ; and we confess to a little disap- 

 pointment because our tables were not filled as usual. After 

 a careful review, we are able to report some as fine collec- 

 tions and as fine specimens as in former years. There has 

 been great, progress in all departments of farm labor and 

 production, and the corn, and squashes, and wheat, and hay 

 on exhibition are cause for encouragement to every farmer. 

 Mr. Turner, of Scituate, exhibited corn harvested the 10th of 

 September, ripe enough to grind into meal. He claims superi- 

 ority in yield, in earliness, and better fodder than the larger 



