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light "warm land ; and I am satisfied from experience that they 

 are the most useful root the farmer can raise for store and fat- 

 tening cattle. 

 .Salem, Nov. 15, 1862. 



Salem, Nov. 13, 1862. 



This certifies that I have this day measured the lot of land/ 

 at Dr. Geo. B. Loring's farm, upon which he raised his crop 

 of ruta bagas; and found it to contain two and one-half acres. 



I have also marked off, on the south side of the above lot, a 

 parcel containing one acre. 



CHARLES A. PUTNAM. 



Salem, Nov. 14, 1862. 



I hereby certify that I gathered eighteen hundred and sev- 

 enty-five bushels of ruta bagas from two and one-half acres of 

 land, entered by Geo. B. Loring for premium, each bushel 

 weighing sixty pounds. The weight was estimated by weigh- 

 ing the contents of one bushel basket. 



One acre, measured by Mr. Putnam, yielded seven hundred 

 and forty bushels. 



ELIAS HAM. 



They award the following premiums : — 



Hanson Ordway of West Newbury, for onion' crop, $8 



S. A. Merrill of Salem, for cabbage crop, $8 



J. J. H. Gregory of Marblehead, for squashes, $8 



Geo. B. Loring of Salem, for mangel wurzel crop, $8 



Geo. B. Loring of Salem, for ruta baga crop, $8 

 Bespectfully submitted, 



A. M. BOD WELL, > p^,,,„^^^^ 

 R.S. ROGERS, '^Committee. 



