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Fairness requires us to notice the crop offered by Constant Clapp, 

 Jackson. From an acre he raised 85 bushels of China Tree Corn; 

 on gravelly loam, greensward broken up last spring; no manure since 

 1839, when 40 loads were applied; hills accidentally 4 feet apart. 

 Nett profit, (at 4s. per bushel,) $38.75. Over 100 hills were des- 

 troyed by worms; and had the rows been 3 feet by 4, as was intended 

 and thus yielded equally well, the single acre w^ould have produced 

 one hundred and nine bushels. But in this county, 85 bushels, like 

 a certain quality of wine, "needs no bush." 



Henry R. McLean, Jackson, best Potatoes, $5 .00; 5101 bushels; 

 on a low dry meadow of loamy gravel, broken up in April, 5 inches 

 deep; harrowed; seed, (Merino,) 20 bushels, sliced; plaster in the 

 hill and after weeding; weeded middle of June, with cultivator and 

 hoe; early in July cross-plowed and hilled; harvested Oct. 8, 10th. 

 Nett profit $73.24. 



Peter Hill, Jackson, best Rye, $4.00; 25 bushels 11 quarts; on 

 moist loamy gravel; after a spring crop which had 1 bushel of plas- 

 ter, it w^as plowed and sowed Sept. 8, harvested July 20th. Nett 

 profit $9.57. 



Henry Holmes, Greenwich, best Oats, $4.00; 53J bushels per 

 acre, the average of 81 acres. On sandy loam, in corn last year; 

 straw estimated to pay expense of cultivation, making the nett pro- 

 fit at 2s. 6d. per bushel, (the oats being of superior quality,) $16.62^. 

 [Certificate not suflficiently definite.] 



V/illia7nJi. Russell, Salem, 2d best Oats, $3.00; 97 bushels 4 

 quarts; on moist clay loam, in potatoes 5 years past, and 15 loads 

 manure each year, none the present; plowed and harrowed in April; 

 2? bushels seed. Nett profit at 2s. per bushel, $12.34, or esti- 

 mating straw to pay expense of cultivation, $24.28. 



John McDo7iald, Salem, 3d best Oats, a volume of State Agri- 

 cultural Society Transactions; 80 bushels 6 quarts; on light sandy 

 loam; 25 loads unfermented manure turned under early in June, last 

 year, and potatoes planted. Plowed May 3d; 3 bushels seed; har- 

 rowed; half the acre pressed by the roller, was much the thriftiest 

 at first, but no difference perceptible at harvest. Nett profit at 2s. 

 per bushel, $11.64, or estimating straw to pay expense of cultiva- 

 tion, .'«20.05. 



The committee say: "All the specimens presented weie of supe- 

 rior quality, and although there were no competitors for the premi- 

 ums on winter wheat, rye and potatoes, the committee have awarded 

 premiums for these productions as above, believing them meritorious. 

 Accompanying tke report is a detailed statement of an experiment by 

 Mr. Holmes, of sowing corn broadcast, which the committee would 

 recommend should be published." 



Some dissatisfaction having been expressed, with reference to the 

 awards on corn and oats, the chairman of the committee, in reply to 

 a communication inquiring the reasons of the decisions on those 

 crops, states that the quality of the respective samples of grain was 

 a prominent consideration with the committee. Esq. Clapp's corn 

 was shrivelled, and in the opinion of the committee, not at all adapt- 



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