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hundred bushels can be raised upon an acre, and who have 

 even doubted the word of our previous supervisors, when they 

 made, at the time of harvesting, an honest estimate of one 

 hundred and thirty to forty bushels to an acre. 



The premiums for Indian corn weighed and shelled on the 

 first of January have been renewed, and the experiments will 

 we trust be pursued for years to come, until all doubts shall 

 be set at rest. 



From the Report of the Committee on Produce. 



Indian corn is not only one of the best and most profitable 

 crops raised in Plymouth County, but it is generally the surest, 

 though this year our farmers have suffered much by the 

 untimely frost in September. This shows the desirability of 

 selecting those kinds of corn which will not only yield well, 

 but mature early. 



This matter of varieties is one of the most important in the 

 economy of Indian corn, and it may be suggested that it would 

 be desirable that any one having well defined varieties, of 

 which he knows the history and qualities, the ripening, culti- 

 vation or yield, would send a specimen, with a particular and 

 full account of all he knows about it, to the secretary of the 

 Plymouth County Society, for transmission to the Secretary 

 of the Board of Agriculture. There is in Boston a cabinet to 

 receive the various kinds of corn, and as received, each spec- 

 imen is labelled, by which means facilities are offered for 

 comparing one sort with another. To the agriculturist true 

 in heart, it is a pleasure and a sign to see improvements each 

 year made in the cereals, and to see a manifest and growing 

 desire to procure the improved breeds of cattle, sheep and 

 horses. If it is a satisfaction to see such things, how much 

 room is there to enlarge the bounds of improvement in the 

 filling up and reclaiming our low meadows, and making the 

 wastes " blossom as the rose." 



Report of the Supervisor on Shelled Corn. 



Having finished the shelling, weighing and measuring of 

 the several acres of Indian corn entered for the society's 

 premium No. 27, I present the following result of the experi- 

 ments : — 



