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Sherman Nelson, Doane Cogswell, Chas. H. Preston,. 

 S. F. Newman, Asa. F, Newhall — Coynmittee. 



REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ROOT CROPS. 



The Committee selected to examine the Root Crops en- 

 tered for premium respectively submit the following report. 

 We have received in all fifteen entries, viz. : 



David Warren, Swampscott, onions. John H. George, 

 Methuen, potatoes and onions. Otis L. Kent, Newbury- 

 port, onions. J. Henry Nason, West Boxford, potatoes. 

 Chas. C. Blunt, Andover, cabbage, parsnips, carrots and 

 turnips. Samuel H. Bailey, Andover, cabbage. Walter 

 Smith, Methuen, cabbage. Chas. B. Carlton, West Box- 

 ford, potatoes. Daniel A. Carlton, Andover, cabbage. E. 

 C. Little, Haverhill, mangolds and potatoes. 



It is indeed an unfavorable season, when Essex County 

 does not succeed in raising some extra large crops ; we 

 were agreeably surprised to find, in a season like the pre- 

 sent, such large crops, especially onions and potatoes. 



The Committee desire to thank each competitor, whom 

 they had occasion to visit, for the cordial manner in which 

 they were received and for the knowledge obtained in their 

 special branch of farming. It is impossible for an observ- 

 ing person to thus visit these representative farmers, with- 

 out gaining valuable information in nearly every depart- 

 ment of this most complicated, but noblest occupation of 

 man. 



Although the duties of this Committee are as ^ rule, 

 somewhat arduous, occupying considerable time, we feel 

 that we have been amply rewarded for our services, by the 

 knowledge gained by thus meeting our fellow farmers. 



Sept. 1, we commenced our duties by calling on Mr. 

 David Warren, who many of the members of the society 

 know as a specialist in growing and putting up superior 

 seeds, such as cabbage, squash, carrot, sweet corn, etc. 

 He occupies the Hooper farm in Swampscott, where that 



