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trlsion before giving it a name. In this way we may hope to attain 

 to a respectable nomenclature of the varieties of our products to take 

 the place of our present Babel. 



Darius Forbes, Chairman. 



HEPORT AND STATEMENTS. 



On Grain Crops. 



jChe Committee on Grain Crops award premiums as follows : — 



Uor best conducted experiment in raising the largest crop of win- 

 ter wheat at the least expense, on not less than half an acre, en 

 ploughed land, 1st, Samuel Gray, Harrison. 



For best conducted experiment in raising the largest crop of spring 

 wheat at the least expense, on not less than half an acre, 3d, Thos. 

 J. Twycross, Dresderi. 



For best conducted experiment in raising the largest crop of 

 Indian corn at the least expense, on not less than one acre, 1st, 

 John C. Clement, Kenduskeag ; 2d, George P. Hooper, Paris ; 3d, 

 E. F. Crane, Kenduskeag ; 4th, A. k W. True, Litchfield. 



For best conducted experiment in raising the largest crop of barlev 

 at the least expense, on not less than half an acre, on ploughed land, 

 1st, Straw & Nourse, Orrington ; 2d, S. N. "Watson, Fayette. 



For best conducted experiment in raising the largest crop of oats 

 at the least expense, on not less than an acre, on ploughed land, 1st, 

 E. F. Crane, Kenduskeag ; 2d, Thomas J. Twycross, Dresden. 



Kemarks, 



We regret to find a number of entries of crops are accompanied 

 with no statement at all ; and others, with only partial statements. 

 A list of these is appended for the information of the parties, and 

 others interested. 



Wheat. 1. Entry of wheat and squashes, but no person's name 

 attached, was a good crop, and would have taken a premium, had 

 we known to whom to give it. Produce, 18 bush, per acre. 



2. Alfred Cushman, Golden Ridge Plantation, Aroostook Co. 

 Deficient in statement of the amount of crop produced. 



