MAIXE STATE SOCIETY 25 



GrAIxNTS. 



Premiums were awarded on specimens of grains as follows : 

 For best bushel winter wheat, to Ira Winn, Portland. 

 Second best, Lewis Wood, Winthrop. 

 For best bushel spring wheat, to Reuben Hobbs, Harrison. 

 Second best, to John Titcomb, Jr., Farmington. 

 For best bushel of Indian corn in ears, to John F. Anderson, 

 South Windham. 



Second best, to Ira Winn, Portland. 



For best bushel barley, to Chas. Hunnewell, Windham. 



Second best, to Chas. Hunnewell, Windham. 



For best bushel oats, to Nelson Haskell, Poland. 



Second best, Chas. Hunnewell, Windham. 



For best peck early peas, to Wm. Grinnell, Exeter. 



For best half bushel field beans, J. A. Larrabee, Portland. 



Crops. 



Among the statements on crops are the following : 

 W/ieaL T. H. Norcross of Charleston, Penobscot Co., applies 

 for premium on best acre of spring wheat, and says : 



"My crop consisting of 51 28-32 bushels of 64 11-16 pounds to 

 the bushel, was grown on one acre. The soil upon which it grew 

 was a fine brown loam, friable, with some small stones, very few 

 large enough to require an iron bar to remove them. The land had 

 been in grass 12 years, and did not yield more than 500 of poor hay 

 to the acre. The last of May, 1858, hauled on 42 loads (one-half 

 cord each) of yard manure, muck, straw, and the droppings of the 

 cattle during the winter; spread, and plowed 10 inches deep, and 

 harrowed well : and sowed 4 bushels oats, used them for fodder — 

 equal to two tons of good hay. In May, 1859, hauled off the rocks, 

 and cross-plowed 10 inches deep with a large plow; harrowed well, 

 and then put on 40 loads of manure, as above, then harrowed, and 

 plowed a second time, and planted with corn, with a large shovel- 

 ful of choice manure in a hill. Crop large, as noted in '• Goodale's 

 Report " for 1859. 



April 20, 1860, plowed, harrowed three times ; plowed second 

 time, then harrowed four times. April 25th, sowed one bushel and 

 28 quarts (well washed and dried with ashes) wheat, "Russia 

 Club." The seed was obtained of a friend, who received his from 

 Washington. Then harrowed four times — making in all eleven 



