70 



For best boquet to Mrs. Levi Benjamin, of Fitchburg, $1,00 

 For second best boquet to Miss Mary Green, of 



Fitchburg, ,50 



Two bouquets offered by Mr. J. M. Sawtelle, would have 

 received a premium had they been entered in season. 

 All of which is respectfully submitted. 



G. F. BAILEY, Chairman. 



VEGETABLES. 



The department which has been assigned to your Com- 

 mittee is one of great importance, growing out of its relations 

 to the human family in supplying their daily wants, and in 

 adding to many of their frugal meals, a share at least of 

 what are regarded as the dainties and luxuries of life. 



This department of agriculture is pursued by many in 

 all classes and professions of our fellow-citizens, and hence 

 whatever influence contributes either to its wider develop- 

 ment, or permanent improvement, is not only an advance in 

 practical science, but eminently a blow struck in behalf of 

 the public good, and the material welfare of a vast popula- 

 tion. The demand for good vegetables is rapidly increasing 

 in our community, and should stimulate our farmers to de- 

 vote a larger share of attention to their cultivation. At pre- 

 sent most of our early vegetables are procured at Boston 

 market, and are readily sold to our citizens at highly remu- 

 nerative prices. Doubtless no branch of agriculture success- 

 fully prosecuted, pays so large a profit as the cultivation of 

 vegetables ; we propose therefore in this report to offer a few 

 thoughts and suggestions connected with their cultivation, 

 and first : 



Ploioing. — The object of plowing is not alone to kill the 

 weeds and grass, nor even to furnish a seed bed. of fresh 



