CUMBERLAND COUNTY SOCIETY. 1^<J 



determined thus to practice. Brother farmers, are we not all guilty? 

 Let us look about our premises and see. 



The Expanding Principle. This is also another error into 

 which many of the farmers of this county seem readily to fall ; in- 

 creasing their number of acres when they already have more than 

 they can possibly cultivate to advantage. 



The LABOR and fertilizers at command are spread over too 

 much ground, thereby producing only medium or perhaps minimum 

 crops, when the same expenditure applied to one half the same area 

 would give maximum, or at least, remunerating crops. There seems 

 a,lso a"glaring want of judgment in the selection of lands for cultiva- 

 tion. That which is extremely rocky, broken, sandy, or wet, should 

 be left for the production of a forest growth, (evidently the design 

 of the Maker,) at least, until the better lands are all taken up. 

 And yet, strange as it may seem, these refuse lands are toiled and 

 snailed over, while those more feasible are left for the production of 

 wood. 



Many other subjects claim our attention, and more than a mere 

 passing notice, but they must be deferred to a future report. 



Samuel F. Perley, Chairman. 



Grain and Vegetables. 



The Committee report, that the statements necessary in regard to 

 mode of culture have been made in only a few instances, and pre- 

 miums have been given strictly in accordance with the rules of the 

 Society. 



Traces of pop corn from John Reed of Westbrook, and James F. ~ 

 Tuttle, of Freeport. 



R. F. Jordan of Cape Elizabeth, four traces of corn, the best 

 exhibited. 



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Enoch L. Pillsbury of Cape Elizabeth, two traces of corn. 



A. P. Foster of Harrison, showed one trace of corn nearly equal 

 to those above mentioned. 



E. T. Smith of Goiham, superior samples of corn. Also bea/ns 

 and peas. 



