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At Mr. Page's, on the Pick man farm, at Salem, we 

 found a line piece of cabbages which promised a large crop. 

 Your Committee selected a number of average heads and 

 weighed them, then taking the number of heads in a row, 

 and estimating the whole piece on that basis, found the 

 crop to weigh 26,672 lbs. ; the heads were of very even 

 size, with scarcely a vacancy on the half-acre. 



Our next visit was to West Newbury, which'is one of 

 the best forming towns in the county ; we first called on 

 C. K. Ordway, whose farm contains many acres of inter- 

 vale land situated on the banks of the beautiful Merrimac. 

 He showed us the product of his dairy, in the shape of a 

 splendid lot of home-made cheese, which sells at twenty 

 cents per lb. Also large fields of excellent corn, and in 

 fact he was not satisfied until he had made us familiar with 

 nearly all his farm operations, all of which are conducted 

 in a business-like manner. Our object was to examine a 

 field of carrots ; the variety raised was the Long Orange, 

 which in our view are not as profitable as the Danvers 

 Medium. He has a fair field however, although he thinks 

 it will fall short of last year ; this season has not been a 

 good carrot season in any section. 



Just here I would like to say a word in favor of the 

 Guerande carrot, a new variety. I purchased some seed 

 of Mr. Gregory last spring, and on four rows, twenty rods 

 long, I harvested Nov. 2, fifty-eight bushels, weighing 

 3,364 lbs. ; this would make, sowing the rows sixteen in- 

 ches apart, 83,130 lbs., or 41 1-2 tons to the acre. My 

 method of cultivation is to sow a single row between ev- 

 ery other row of strawberries, and I suppose that the yield 

 would not be as large if sown in a field, with rows sixteen 

 inches apart. This is just the variety to plant between 

 strawberries, as it is easily pulled, not requiring any dig- 

 ging at all. 



