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ket, with scarcely a scullion or pickler on the piece. They 

 grew on a piece of reclaimed swamp land with no under- 

 drain, hut an open ditch all around the piece. The rows 

 were sowed only twelve inches apart. Mr. George has 

 but a few acres of land, and that is all made to produce a 

 crop that any farmer might well feel proud of. 



On the same day we visited the crops of onions and 

 cabbage entered by Mr. Chas. W. Mann. Mr. Mann's 

 onions were on a piece of good, strong dark loam soil, 

 sloping slightly to the west, that was suitable to raise a 

 good crop of any farm product. His crop was some two or 

 three weeks later than Mr. George's, being hut partly 

 dried down, but it was a fine piece of onions for the size 

 of it, there being some four acres devoted to that crop, 

 and the committee were somewhat at a loss to tell where 

 the best half acre was he had entered for a premium. 

 The rows were fourteen inches apart and the onions being 

 thin grew of large size, with very few picklers, and if 

 they had been sowed a little thicker would have been a 

 very heavy crop. 



Mr. Mann's crop of cabbage was on a piece of strong 

 land near the base of quite a high hill sloping somewhat 

 to the westward. It was a very heavy crop of "Mr. 

 Mann's strain of Stone Mason," the heaviest crop, the 

 committee thought, they ever saw. They stood higher 

 on the stump than the common Stone Mason. In looking 

 over the field the committee could not find a cabbage but 

 what had a good solid head of very large size for that 

 time of the year, it being early in the season for the crop 

 to have its full growth. The rows were three feet apart, 

 the plants two feet in the row. 



While in Methuen Mr. George took us to see Capt H. 

 G. Herrick's farm in that town, and we were fortunate in 

 finding the genial Captain there. He took us over his 

 whole place and showed us the many improvements which 

 he is making, and among other things he showed us a fine 

 piece of carrots, which he has since entered for a pre- 

 mium. The carrots were on a piece of dark loam, on 



