92 ON VEGETABLES. 



The time spent in completing the specimens I am not 

 able to decide, but with the assistance of a little girl at 

 the furnaco, after the coc()ons are well prepared, I can 

 spin nine knots of forty threaJs each, on the long reel, 

 in an hour. 



Cleansed by boiling in soap suds one hour. 

 Yours, with respect, 



SOPHIA ORDWAY. 

 West Newbury, Sept. 25, 1844. 



ON VEGETABLES. 



Your Committee upon veorptables having attended to 

 their duty would respectfully report, — That the follow- 

 ing articles were sent in for exhibition : 



Large squashes, weighing ninety lbs. from Samuel 

 Jenkins, Bradford ; seedling (early) potatoes, from Aaron 

 Wallis, Ipswich ; veto potato, resembling the long red, 

 from Isaac Dempsey, North Danvers ; blue potato, The- 

 odore Coggeshall, Ipswich ; Hat turnip, wei'jhing ten 

 lbs. Moody Ordway, West Newbury ; handsome kidney 

 potato, long prickly cucumber and turnip blood beet, 

 J. Hammond, Heverly ; tine eight rowed yellow corn, 

 Humphrey H. Kimball, Rowley ; long [ rickly cucumber, 

 Reuben Jones, Andover ; white Belgian carrots, (large) 

 long orange do., mangel wurtzel, and yellow onions, 

 large and fine, Adam iNesmith, Beverly ; white Belgian 

 carrot from seed sown thj 14th of June, Benj. Boynton, 

 Andover; yellow corn measuring fifteen inches in the 

 ear, Samuel Putnam, Danvers ; mammoth sun-ilower, 

 measuring sixteen inches diameter, Leonard Cross, Dan- 

 vers ; early Jefferson corn, mountain sprout water mel- 

 on, Skilman's netted melon, John M. Ives, Salem ; four 

 large hybrid acorn squashes, Sylvester Goodwin, Ando- 

 ver; one large hybrid mairow do., weighing seventy- 

 two lbs., Robert Jewett, Georgetown ; laige ribbed 

 pumpkin, John EUery, Gloucester ; crook neck squash, 

 weighing forty-five and a half lbs., John Brewer, Ipswich; 



