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which was an orchard of young apple trees. Mr. Herrick 

 bought the seed for Danvers carrot, but to his disgust 

 about one-half of it was the Gerande. If it had all been 

 the Danvers the crop would have been very heavy, there 

 being nearly thirteen tons to the half acre as it was. 



On Sept. 21 the committee visited Mr. Paul M. llsley 

 of Newbury, who had entered a crop of squashes, and also 

 on the same day visited Messrs. C. K. Ordway & Son of 

 West Newbury, who had entered a crop of carrots, and 

 Mr. Komulus Jaques of the same town, who had entered 

 a crop of Swede turnips and onions. 



Mr. Usley had an acre of fine Essex Hybrid squash on 

 a piece of land of the nature of a sandy loam. That was 

 planted in 1886 to corn, manured with barnyard manure. 

 In 1887 it was planted to potatoes manured with fer- 

 tilizer. The crop was not so heavy as some, but was very 

 even, all well ripened, and ready to gather ; very few 

 small or inferior ones ; so much so that one of the com- 

 mittee asked him what he had done with the poor ones or 

 seconds. 



Messrs. C. K. Ordway & Son, whose farm is located on 

 the banks of the Merrimac Kiver, and a considerable por- 

 tion of it is fine intervale land that is capable of produc- 

 ing a good crop of anything they see fit to cultivate. 

 Our object was to see a half acre of carrots which the} r 

 had entered for a premium. They were of the Chanter- 

 noy variety, which in our opinion are not so profitable to 

 raise as the Danvers, although they had a very good crop. 

 The} r were short, but held their size the whole length, 

 and could be pulled as easily as turnips, requiring no 

 digging. But carrots are not the only good crop they 

 raise, they having several acres in corn, and one of their 

 pieces some of the committee estimated to produce very 

 near one hundred bushels of shell corn to the acre. They 

 also took pride in showing us their dairy, in the shape of a 

 fine lot of homemade cheese, for which they find a ready 

 market in Haverhill at an advance in price from the com- 

 mon article. The Messrs. < udway are experimenting this 



