REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON SMALL FRUITS. 



The Committee on Small Fruit Crops have attended to 

 the duty assigned them, and respectfully submit the fol- 

 lowing report : 



J. Webb Barton, of Danvers, entered a crop of straw- 

 berries. 



Fred Stultz, of West Newbury, strawberries. 



Oscar Go wen, of West New^bury, raspberries. 



Amos Haseltine, of Haverhill, blackberries and currants. 



June 7th notice was received by the committee of their 

 election, and that Mr. Barton had entered a field of straw- 

 berries. 



The notice was so short, and the season so busy, that 

 none but the chairman could be induced to visit Mr. Bar- 

 ton's crop, thus foregoing the pleasure of examining an 

 exceedingl}' fine plot for this season, of this most excel- 

 lent of all small fruits. Our next call was on Mr. Stultz 

 near Cherry Hill Nursery. His vines had a very strong 

 growth, and were well loaded with fruit which gave prom- 

 ise of a large crop, but being late the berries were in their 

 height when the heavy rains of the latter part of June 

 caused large quantities to decay, very materially reducing 

 the crop. Mr. Go wen's crop of raspberries was a good 

 one, considering tlie small amount of labor expended. As 

 he does not go back as does Mr. Haseltine, and charge the 

 present crop with the expenses of former years, we infer 

 that his account has already been balanced by preceding 

 crops. 



On July 25th three of the committee were at Ayers 

 Village to view the blackberry and currant crops of 

 Amos Haseltine, which were giown on the same land as 

 were those which he received premiiims for last year. Mr. 

 Haseltine is somewhat disappointed with this year's crop, 

 which leaves a small balance against him for the three jears 

 of bearing. We think that Mr. Haseltine's statements as 

 a continuation of hijslast year's report are valuable to the 



