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 REPORT OF COMMITTEE ON ROOT CROPS. 



The Committee chosen to examine the Root Crops 

 •entered for the Society's premiums, have attended to their 

 duty, and report eleven entries by ten competitors, as 

 follows : 



John H. George, Methuen, crop of potatoes. 



James J. H. Gregory, Marblehead, crop of onions. 



Chas. C. Blunt, Andover, crop of parsnips. 



Frederick Symonds, North Andover, crop of cabbage. 



Daniel Carlton, North Andover, crop of cabbage. 



J. C. Poor, North Andover, David Warren, Swampscott, 

 crop of cabbage. 



M. H. Conner, West Newbury, crop of cabbage. 



S. P. Buxton, Peabody, crop of cabbage. 



C. Moynihan, Newbury, crop of onions and beets. 



Although considerable time and expense were involved 

 in travelling about the county viewing the different crops, 

 the committee feels well paid. The compensation comes 

 from meeting many of the most enterprising farmers in the 

 county and seeing how they do their work, learn of their 

 experience. The committee has been most hospitably 

 treated at every place visited, and our hosts have shown us 

 every thing interesting on their farms and on others in their 

 vicinity. 



On September 4, visited Mr. John H. George in Methuen. 

 Mr. George drove the committee about the town, showing 

 them the many fine residences in that place before taking 

 us to his farm. At Mr. George's we found a heavy crop of 

 pc tatoes, with the vines all dead and the tubers ready to 

 dig. An unsound potato was not seen, but we did see 

 twenty-six marketable potatoes dug from one hill. This 

 crop was grown on a reclaimed swamp where Mr. George 

 had grown onions. The crop was very smooth and of good 

 6ize. 



While in Methuen, Mr. George took us up to Mr. Mann's 

 place where we saw two as fine yokes of oxen as one could 



