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of Andover, and looked at his crop of parsnips. The crop 

 looked ver}^ thrifty and were about one half bottomed at 

 the time of our visit. Mr. Blunt makes a specialty of rais- 

 ing parsnips, and markets the greater part of them in the 

 spring. Mr. Jos. Blunt was kind enough to drive us over 

 to Mr. Hayward's. The crop of cabbage] looked thrifty 

 and showed that they had plenty of plant food to feed upon. 



On Sept. 21, we went to Topsfield to see Mr. Manning's 

 crop of onions, they were grown on a side hill, dark, shal- 

 low loam. Mr. Manning bad taken advantage of the fine 

 weather and pulled tbem before we got there but they were 

 lying on the ground and were well dried and of good size. 



October 2nd, we went to Swampscott to see Mr. War- 

 ren's crop of squashes, which we found well ripened, even 

 ^n size and very pure in stock 5 the crop was on light, grav- 

 elly loam. As Mr. Warren took us about his farm, we were 

 shown a fine piece of onions grown on low meadow land, 

 of good quality and size, but they were not entered for pre- 

 mium. 



On October 13, we again visited Mr. Manning of Tops- 

 field, to see his crop of rata baga turnips ; they were planted 

 on a side hill, gravelly loam and had suffered to such an 

 extent from drought that the committee did not feel justi- 

 fied in awarding him a premium. 



On the same day, we visited Mr. Moynihan of Newbury ; 

 his crop of turnips as grown on a piece of reclaimed 

 pasture, they were of good quality and of very even size, 

 they were planted so far apart in the rows and many places 

 were not transplanted, therefore he did not receive as large 

 a crop as he otherwise would have. 



We have awarded the premiums as follows : 

 $10. First premium, to John H. George, Methuen, for 

 crop of onions. 



$5. Second premium, to James Manning, Topsfield, for 



crop of onions, 

 'flu. First premium, to Chas. C. Blunt, Andover, for crop 

 of parsnips. 



