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rade of fine writing or extended knowledge ; but if these can be brought 

 into service in the better development of ideas which may be really useful 

 in promoting the great objects of our society, by all means let them be 

 reasonably employed. 



The best report your committee regard as that which, couples the in- 

 evitable finale of award, with useful and available suggestions, put forth in 

 such a manner as to interest, instruct and prompt to thought and experi- 

 ment. Let us have not only a terse sermon, but an application, set home 

 in such a way as to insure profit, by enlisting our common sense in getting 

 it 



Your Committee are pleased to notice this tendency in several of U13 re- 

 ports of the year 18T0, and would, as their best judgemnt, award as fol- 

 lows : 



1st.— Committee on Flowers, A. Hyde, Chairman. 



2d — Committee on Summer Crops, H. S. Goodale, Chairman. 



3d— Committee on Stallions and Colts, A. L. Hubbell, Chairman. 



4th — Committee on Embroidery, I. Sumner, Chairman. 



5th — Committee on Agricultural Implements, T, Thatcher, Chairman. 



flth — Committee on Painting and Fancy Work, M. S. Bidwell, Chairman. 



All which is respectfully submitted, 



E. W. B. Canning, ) n 



T ^. T ' r Committee. 



J. Dewey, Jr., 



