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Best box of Uvelve jjounds. 



First premium to Warren Sawin, of Dover, . . . 5.00 



Second premium to Lucy Green, of Dedham, . . 3.00 



Third premium to Mrs. Nathan Longfellow, of Needhara, Flint's 



Treatise on Dairy Farming. 



JEREMIAH W. GAY, Chairman. 

 Bedham, Sept. 25, 1861. 



REPORT ON VEGETABLES. 



The number of exhibitors in this department was thirty-three. 



The specimens of vegetables and roots exhibited made a very 

 respectable appearance, and were of superior character, consider- 

 ing the severe drought of the season. 



To John Sias, of Milton, for the best collection and variety of 

 vegetables, consisting of one hundred and two kinds, the Com- 

 mittee award the first premium — a silver cup of the value of ten 

 dollars. 



To W. T. G. Morton, of Needham, and A. D. Weld, of West 

 Roxbury, each the Society's diploma and a gratuity of one 

 dollar. 



To Edward R. Andrews, for his Yellow Globe Beets, raised 

 from seed imported by the Massachusetts Society for Promoting 

 Agriculture — a diploma. 



To A. D. Webber, of West Needham, for six squashes raised 

 from one seed, whose united weight was 695 1-2 lbs. — a diploma 

 and French's Treatise on Drainage. 



To William Bullard, 2d, of Dedham, for the best collection of 

 potatoes — a premium of five dollars. 



To E. H. Blackraan, of Sharon, a gratuity of five dollars, for 

 four varieties of seedling potatoes — three years from seed — ac- 

 companied by a written statement. The specimens exhibited by 

 Mr. Blackman are quite promising ; and if, on further trial, they 

 continue to increase in size, there is reason to hope that one or 

 more of the varieties may prove to be superior to sorts now cul- 

 tivated. 



jMany other contributors deserve the thanks of the Society — 

 especially B. White, of Milton, for a fine display of White Moun- 

 tain Potatoes. 



In conclusion, the Committee would urge the farmers of Old 

 Norfolk to have a little more ambition in the experiment of raising 

 vegetables and roots. The Society oft'ers to you thirty dollars a 

 year in premiums for certain varieties, for which not a single dol- 



