1867. 



NEW ENGLAND FARMER. 



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wbich this town is at times liable to, when a 

 break occurs in the minds of its inhabitants : — 

 James M. Kent presented potatoes, mongrel 

 pumpkins — a curious freak of nature ; Lucien 

 Kent, Wiimingstadt and flat Dutch cabbage, 

 parsnips, beets, 2 varieties tomatoes, 8 do. 

 apples ; David L. Bachelder, a new variety 

 of parching corn; Mrs. Marden, giant English 

 turnips, blood beets ; Page Long, seed cucum- 

 bers, extra long ; C. IL Knowles, 2 varie- 

 ties potatoes, seed corn, 7 varieties apples, 

 giant Savoy cabbages, a sample of 13 qts. 

 of beans, which grew on 15 square feet of 

 ground, being at the rate of 90 bushels to an 

 acre ! George Hook, 6 varieties apples, extra 

 large Dutch cabbages ; Gcoi-ge Cammet, beans, 

 and 2 fine samples of seed corn ; Charles Kent, 



4 new varieties potatoes, from the seed balls ; 

 George Bell, field, sweet, and California pump- 

 kins, 3 varieties of fowls, 3 do. monstrous po- 

 tatoes, average 16 inches in circumference, 

 being an average sample of 200 bushels ! 

 George Weeks, sorghum cane, 2 varieties 

 parching corn ; Charles Willcomb, carrots, 

 large pumpkins, squashes, onions, beets, 6 

 varieties apples ; Arthur S. Leonard, 9 do. 

 potatoes, seed corn, 7 varieties apples, fancy 

 baskets for house plants, Brahma, Chittagongs, 

 black Spanish and white Leghorn fowls, fan- 

 tailed doves; Thomas I. Melvin, 15 varieties 

 apples, 4 do. mammoth blood and mangel 

 wurzel beets, carrots, turnips, seed corn, 

 planted May 25, harvested Sept. 1 ; Wm. 

 Crawford, French turnips, carrots, onions, 

 white-flint corn, and potatoes of the Orono spe- 

 cies — I saw a few hills of these potatoes dug ; 

 the product of a hill weighed 9^ lbs. ; they 

 were planted very near together, and turned 

 out at the rate of GOO bushels to an acre ! J. 

 L. Lovett exhibited 5 varieties seed potatoes ; 

 Josiah Fitts, garden vegetables, 4 varieties ap- 

 ples, and pears ; Francis Hazelton, 7 varieties 

 apples, ehickory roots, extra large pumpkins, 

 squashes ; N. S. Morse, 2 very nice plates 

 apples and potatoes ; John W. Noyes, Hub- 

 bard squashes, 21 varieties apples. Concord, 

 Delaware, Diana, Maine and Rogers hybrid 

 grapes, No. 19 ; I. T. Kendall, 5 varieties 

 beautiful apples, French turnips, splendid 

 watermelons, French squash; J. S. Corning, 

 watermelons, squashes, trace corn ; H. Knights, 



5 varieties seedling potatoes ; C. L. Weymouth, 

 large Hubbard squashes ; S. V. Osgood, giant 

 Swedish turnips ; D. C. Swain, mongrel crook- 

 neck s(juash; G. C. Fitts, French squash, 

 ground almonds, seed com ; Fred. Morse, 

 pumpkins, 5 varieties apples ; George Will- 

 coml), large pumpkuis, corn and cabbages ; 

 Amos Ball, trace com, beans, large potatoes ; 

 John Wason, broom corn, extra large French 

 turnips, 13 varieties splendid apples; Roxanna 

 Stevens, 2 do. tomatoes ; Elienezer Marden, 

 early Canada corn, citron melons, French tur- 

 nips, 13 varieties apples, basket chestnuts in 

 the burr opened by frost ; Wm. P. W. Whitti- 

 more, 5 varieties seed potatoes, buckwheat 



raised on pine plains at the rate of 45 bushels 

 to an acre, peppers ; Wm. Tennc}-, white win- 

 ter wheat, corn, 18 varieties apples, very nice 

 and large, 3 do. pears, Duchess, Vicar of 

 Winkfield, L. B. DeJersey ; G. W. Dolben, a 

 sample of seedling apples, or natural Baldwin ; 

 Wm. True, a very curious and interesting 

 freak of nature on a turnip ; C. S. Dolf, cab- 

 bages ; John Robinson, (i varieties apples, 

 good ; James R. Gordon, (i do. potatoes, lai-ge 

 and nice ; S. S. Chamberlin, pumpkins, Hub- 

 bard and marrow squashes, 3 varieties pota- 

 toes, 3 do. tomatoes, cabbages, 4 varieties 

 beans, champion peas, brown, parching and 

 StowelPs evergreen sweet corn, — 19 ears 

 weighed 18| lbs., — carrots, mangel wurzels, 

 onions, French turnips, Isabella grapes, apples, 

 and potatoes "from the moon," orange gourds. 

 S. F. Leonard : this gentleman was first and 

 foremost in the management of the fair, and 

 entered a large variety of fruits, grain and 

 vegetables ; the name of each I should be 

 pleased to give, but as he neglected to hand 

 them in, I am unable to do so. 



Ladies'' Department. 



Mrs. L. Moore, house plants, flowers and 

 home-made rug; Mrs. L. Lawrence, flowers 

 and house plants ; Mrs. H. M. Hazelton, E. I. 

 Hazelton, L. Hazelton, I. Corning, C. H. 

 Knowles, home-made rugs, each ; Miss N. A. 

 Noyes, worsted work ; Miss S. E. Bell, paint- 

 ings ; Mrs. Kent, pressed flowers, moss bas- 

 kets, flowers, house plants ; ]\'Irs. Jno. Hazel- 

 ton, house plants, worsted work and fancy arti- 

 cles ; Miss A. Mitchel, flowers and baskets; 

 Mrs. F. Page, Mrs. Willcomb, Mrs. Rollins, 

 quilts, each. 



Several others entered articles too late to 

 take their names, or contest for the premiums. 

 The names of those who were awarded pre- 

 miums I have becii unable to obtain, after a 

 number of weeks of incjuiry, so that part I 

 must omit to give you. I will write you about 

 grapes in a few weeks, if I have not already 

 worn your patience out at this time. 



S. S. Chamberlin. 



Chester, N. H., Dec. 25, 1866. 



Remarks. — In a lecture to which we once 

 listened, the speaker pressed upon the atten- 

 tion of his hearers the idea that, ' ' when we 

 work for man, we are working for God." So 

 our correspondent labored — and labored well — 

 on Christmas Bay, to present to us, and the 

 numerous readers of the Farmer in his own 

 and the neighboring towns, an account of the 

 first agricultural fair in the ' ' ancient and 

 honorable " town of Chester. We have heard 

 it spoken of as a success which greatly surprised 

 the movers themselves. It was like "getting 

 into law ;" when they had got it started they 

 couldn't stop it. The example Mill be valua- 



