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mou dressing, raised sixty-cue bushels ears, three bushels white 

 beans, and one cart load pumpkins. Rows three and a half feet, 

 hills two feet, hoed twice, weeds extracted by hand and carried off. 

 Corn, twelve rowed variety, Kenneebe seed. 



On account of drought the hay crop suffered materially, averag- 

 ing in some localities no more than half a crop, obliging many 

 of our farmers to dispose of a part of their stock. 



Wheat. Individuals have raised from twenty to thirty bushels 

 per acre ; but the majority has been a failure. On inquiry, we find 

 success has attended those who have sowed early and sowed the 

 Eed Sea variety ; while others, sowing different seed and late, have 

 failed ; averaging not more than from two, to four or five bushels 

 per acre. 



Oats, barley, rye, buckwheat, &c., average about a middling 

 crop. 



Corn. Those who have planted with a determination to raise a 

 crop have, in every instance, succeeded ; while those who have 

 failed (and there are some such) have only to blame the culture not 

 the soil nor season. 



Potatoes. Crop surpasses last year, although some infested with 

 rot ; many have raised an abundance, and all comfortably supplied 

 with this indispensable article and of .very excellent quality. 



Beans. At present prices no crop is more remunerative ; while 

 all have a supply many have a surplus. One instance I will name : 

 Eben Avcrill, Esq., of Prentiss, the present season has raised over 

 two hundred bushels, valued at two dollars and a quarter per 

 bushel. (He certainly is christened Deacon for life.) 



Flax. Although but few have engaged in it, many intend to, 

 and ere long, we presume, it will become an object of interest, 

 supplying the place of other fabrics, now so enormously high. 



Among many other valuable things, Mrs. Charles Brown of Car- 

 roll, presented at the fair a piece of tow and linen cloth, containing 

 some seven or eight yards, manufactured with her own hands, firm 

 and durable, reminding one of years gone by, when boys (farm- 

 ers' boys we mean) were clad in working suits of the same mate- 

 rial. Also one pound of linen thread very even and nice. 



As yet the North Penobscot Society is a movable one. Efforts 

 have been and are making to locate ; and embracing so much ter- 

 ritory is a difficult question to decide ; still, there is no doubt could 

 it be done judiciously and fairly, it would be of great interest to 



