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Mrs. George Tenney, Georgetown, one dollar each ; Alfred 

 Kimball, Samuel Caldwell, Hannah Baker, Hannah Peabody, 

 Sarah Kent, Mrs. John A. Kimball, A. Hammatt, Ipswich ; 

 Mrs. Morse, Mrs. Geo. Spofford, Georgetown ; Andrew Dodge, 

 Wenham ; Daniel Lord, Miss Lord, Mrs. Cleaves, Salem ; fifty 

 cents each. 



Respectfully for the Committee, 



EDWIN M. STONE. 

 Ipswich, Sept. 24, 1845. 



ON VEGETABLES. 



The Committee on Vegetables, Report : 



The exhibition of vegetables has been gratifying to the 

 committee, in the highest degree. This is partly owing to the 

 fact that, while there was no deficiency in vegetables of un- 

 common size, mere monster productions seem not to have been 

 sought foi\ but a larger proportion of the articles were of the 

 useful and indispensable kinds. The Committee would par- 

 ticularly approve of every attempt to improve the potato, that 

 valuable article, indispensable the world over. The efibrts of 

 Abel Burnham, of Essex, by which he has been able to pro- 

 duce thirteen kinds of seedling potatoes, apparently now full 

 grown the second year from the apple, must strike every one 

 as meritorious. So the specimen of Indian corn produced by 

 Isaac Babson, of Beverly, accompanied by a statement of Rev. 

 E. M. Stone, is exceedingly fine. Whatever may be the facili- 

 ties for obtaining corn further south, every efibrt should be 

 made to produce it in our own fields, and the idea of ripening 

 it before the early frosts is most important — this is perhaps of 

 more consequence than the mere abundance of the crop, atten- 

 ded with the usual uncertainty of ripening before the frosts 

 of early autumn. 



The Committee regret that they were restricted to the small 

 sum of ten dollars for gratuities. Being so limited, however, 



