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THIKD PKEMIUM KEPORT— Gratuity 75 Cents. 



The following is what was raised on a garden fifteen by 

 eighteen feet, by NEWTON L. LITCHFIELD, West Dux- 

 bury, Mass., seven years old last May : 



One pint of shelled peas, 

 One pint of shelled beans. 

 Eighteen fair sized beets. 

 Twenty-eight hills of popping corn, producing fifty-nine 

 ears of corn. Nine hills of corn destroyed by horse. 



NEWTON L. LITCHFIELD. 



His first attempt, with no instruction from parents. 



