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ROOT CROPS. *° 



HORSE TEAMS. 



The Committee on Horse Teams award the following 

 premium : 



1st, to Walter Whitney, Fitchburg, $7,00 



STEPHEN SHEPLEY, Chairman. 



ROOT CROPS. 



Your Committee on Root Crops have to lament the 

 state of things in their department, there being but a 

 single entry, where there should have been at least 

 twenty-five, and that one was of a character which had 

 there been the competition there should have been, 

 might not have appeared in this report. To Cyrus 

 Kilburn, Esq., of Lunenburg, belongs the credit of 

 rescuing this important product from the mortification 

 of not appearing at all in this report, he being the only 

 competitor, and notwithstanding his field of Potatoes 

 might have been excelled by many not entered, yet 

 under the circumstances, we feel that justice will war- 

 rant us in awarding to him the first premium. 



1st, to Cyrus Kilburn, Lunenburg, for his field 



of Potatoes, $4,00 



WM. BAKER, for the Committee. 



CYEUS KILBUBN'S STATEMENT. 

 POTATOES. 



To the Committee on Root Crops — 



Gentlemen : The soil on which I raised my Potatoes 

 was a sandy loam, and was in grass for several years 

 previous. They were planted the 20th of May, cut in 



