158 CUMBERLAND COUNTY SOCIETY. 



Mrs. P. Drinkwater of Portland, presented very fine samples of 

 sweet corn. 



No statement of mode of cultivation accompanied either of the 

 specimens of corn. 



Samuel Grey of Harrison, presented a statement of winter wheat 

 accompanied by a sample, produced at the rate of twenty- four bush- 

 els per acre, and is entitled to the first premium. 



Mr. Grey's ^Aatement. The soil is a sandy loam, eighteen 

 inches deep, of a very dark color ; granite rocks found in it. Last 

 year manured highly, and planted to corn; plowed ten inches deep ; 

 used common stable manure, to the expense of nine dollars. Sowed 

 the last of September, 1856 ; used dry seed, one bushel and twelve 

 quarts per acre ; harvested the crop last of July — it was quite ripe ; 

 raised twenty-four bushels and ten quarts per acre, sixty-five lbs. 

 per bushel. There were fifteen hundred lbs. of straw. 



Expense, . . . . . $21 00 



Value of crop, . , . . 55 qO 



Balance, . . . . $34 CO 



Samuel Iliggins of Scarborough, presented specimens of White 

 Bald and Red Canada wheat, grown at the rate of twenty bushels 

 per acre. His report was not complete. 



Mr. Samuel Higgins' Statement. The feoil is a light sandy 

 loam— dark color ; rocks found in the ground are slate. Plowed 

 last year, used five cords of manure to the acre ; planted corn and 

 potatoes. 



Sowed White Canada wheat, May 11th, two and one-half bushels 

 per acre ; harvested as soon as out of the milk ; raised twenty bushels 

 per acre, weighing sixty lbs. per bushel. Raised on three acres, 

 sixty bushels, worth .... $150 00 



Cost — Plowing, 

 Sowing, 

 Harvesting, 

 Threshing, 



$9 00 



3 00 



6 00 



6 00 



24 00 



Balance, .... $126 00 



Of Squashes the show was very full, and could there have been 

 added a few xmre marrow., would have been complete. 



