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PENCIL DRAWING. 



Istprem to Mrs. F. H. Allen, 2.00 



2(1 " Miss Ella B. Wright, 1 00 



GRATUITIES. 



Miss Ann Eliza White, India ink portraits, 2 00 



Miss Fannie Tolman, oil paintings, 1 75 



3Irs. B. P. Tiask, water-color paintings, 1 50 



Mrs. B. F. Whittemore, pastel paintings, 1 50 



Miss Annie M. T. Haynes, crayon drawing, 1 25 



E. T. Rawson, colored ink birds, 1 25 



R. T. Rawson, pen lettering, 75 



Herbert Adams, pencil drawing, 75 



Miss E. L. Smith, " '75 



Miss M. L. Smith, " 75 



W. Fred. White, sign pointing on glass, 50 



L. W. SPRING, Chairman. 



ROOT CROPS. 



The Committee on Root Crops would submit the following report : 



There were but three entries in competition for the seventeen pre- 

 miums offered in this department : one each of Potatoes, Carrots, and 

 Ruta Bagas. 



The Potatoes, entered by Mr. Cyrus Kilburn, of Lunenburg, were 

 withdrawn, because the plot of ground occupied by them was not large 

 enough to meet the requirements of the Society. 



The Carrots entered by Mr. Ebenezer Bird, of Leominster, were of 

 good size and shape, but the yield was less than three-fourths of the 

 amount required by the Society's rule. The smallness of the crop was 

 owing, in part, no doubt, to the great width between the rows, (which 

 reduced the cost of cultivation as well as the product), and also, in 

 some degree, to the severe drouth of mid-summer. 



The Ruta Bagas were also entered by Mr. E. Bird. This crop was 

 not large, but the roots were very sound and handsome, and the crop, 

 as appears from his statement, was raised at comparatively small expense. 

 We award on Ruta Bagas : 



2d premium to Ebenezer Bird, Leominster, $2 00 



