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Rye, J. B. Gerry bad a premium on twenty-three bushels white 

 spring rye, per acre. 



Buckwheat. J. B. Gerry had a premium on forty-six bushels 

 per acre ; cost of sowing and harvesting stated to be $4 per acre ; 

 value, $17 ; the land in potatoes last year ; three pecks seed sown 

 10th June ; cut end of August. 



Beans. Ezra S. Cushman obtained premium on twenty-four 

 bushels of pea beans per acre, grown without manure. 



Potatoes. First premium to S. Robinson, on three hundred 

 and twenty bushels per acre, of " peach blows, " grown on light 

 loam, free from stones ; last year the land was plowed up, manured 

 and harrowed, and planted to potatoes ; the present year no manure, 

 except two hundred and fifty pounds plaster, at first hoeing ; hoed 

 twice ; dug end of September. 



Second premium to James S. Mitchell, for two hundred and 

 eighteen bushels, on one hundred and forty-seven square rods of old 

 grass land, plowed a year ago, ten inches deep, in July, and har- 

 rowed twice that season ; applied three cords of barn manure, and 

 cross plowed first of October ; planted first of May, on the furrow ; 

 hoed once ; dug first October. 



Other statements are returned which would be of interest were 

 they not deficient in amount of produce, size of the plot, or some 

 other important item. 



