REPORT 



GRAINS, VEGETABLES AND SEEDS. 



Your Committee offer a few words of encouragement to the 

 Plymouth County farmers, though judged by the number of 

 entries to this department they have failed to fill the tables as 

 on former years. The past season was exceptional ; marked by 

 climatic changes, checking the growth of corn and vines of all 

 kinds. Still there were some remarkable exhibitions of vegeta- 

 bles from Messrs. Jenkins, Sampson and Kane of Scituate, 

 reflecting credit on the growers and the farming community. 

 Other towns in the vicinity have the means of making this 

 department complete with a little more interest, as was seen in 

 the collection of corn by Mr. J. F. Hatch ; the rye by S. C. 

 Stetson, product seven bushels from one quart of seed ; and 

 Willard Houghton of Marshfield, two boxes of Hebron and 

 Burbank potatoes. Specimens of fifty-three bushels taken 

 from twenty-seven .rods of land. Rockweed was put in the 

 furrows the year previous, every weed was taken out and all 

 the bugs were picked. L. S. Richards of Marshfield, contrib- 

 utes a new bean from California, with a rich, cream-like 

 color, and which proved very productive \x\ our soil. Nature is 

 equal to Qwx oeeds, From the Town Farm is 9, oew plant 



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