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A seed sower was exhibited manufactured by Mr. Jackson Russell 

 of Waldoborougb. We do not hesitate to recommend it as a most 

 ingenious invention and think it reflects great credit on the inventor j. 

 and certainly deserves, in our opinion, a gratuity. 



Field Crops. 

 The Committee on Field Crops, award : 

 First premium, on corn, to Dummer Trask, Jr., Jeflerson. 

 Second do., do., to Eben Hall, Jefterson. 

 Third do., do., to Lyman H. Winslow, Nobleborough. 

 Fourth do., do., to Levi Vaughan, Warren. 

 Fifth do., do., to Hiram W. Patridge, Jefferson. ' 

 First premium, on wheat, to John Viles, Jefferson. 

 Second do., do., to H. G. McCurdy, Washington. 

 Third do., do., to Ichabod Jones, Warren. 

 First premium, on oats, to Christian Schweir, Waldoborougb. 

 Second do., do., to John Viles, Jefferson. 



First premium, on beans, to Lyman H. Winslow, Nobleborougk 

 Second do., do., to Eben Hall, Jefferson. 



Statements. 



These are few in number, and most deficient in facts necessary to> 

 give them value ; or are so indejinite as to prevent their being relia- 

 ble as data from which to judge of the capabilities of the soil, or the 

 character of the treatment bestowed upon the crops. 



There is great need of more care in the preparation of statements 

 in all our societies, if we would accomplish the end aimed at by their 

 publication and diffusion among farmers. According to such as are 

 found, it would appear that Dummer Trask, Jr., grew seventy-two 

 and one-fourth bushels sound corn, six bushels of soft corn, five 

 bushels of beans, and eight loads of pumpkins, on an acre of dark- 

 colored sandy and gravelly loam; in hay last year; plowed in Nor- 



