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the trifling expense of sticking in cuttings. It makes good 

 summer wood, and is valuable as timber for certain uses, being 

 wholly used for artificial limbs. It is also used in other cases 

 where lightness and toughness are requisite. 



Seth Davis. 

 West Newton, September, 1866. 



GKAIN CROPS. 



WORCESTER NORTH. 



From the Report of the Committee. 



The Committee cut up a square rod of the corn of each of the 

 competitors on the 28th day of September, husked the same, 

 and found the weight as follows : Luther Page's, 51 pounds ; 

 George R. Carter's, 50 pounds ; Joseph Goodrich's, 50^ 

 pounds ; and Cyrus Kilburn's, 58^ pounds. Edwin D. Works 

 withdrew his field of corn on account of smut. By misappre- 

 hension of the time for awarding premiums on corn, one of the 

 Committee shelled Joseph Goodrich's sample, and George R. 

 Carter's, on the 30th of October, and finding his mistake, put 

 the same in bags and kept it till this day, so that the shrinkage 

 was not so much as it would otherwise have been. Luther 

 Page's corn weighed this day, 31^ pounds=89|| bushels to 

 the acre ; shrinkage, 19 T 9 g pounds=38.35 per cent, to dry 

 shelled corn. George R. Carter's corn weighed this day, 30 ^ 

 pounds=86gpg bushels to the acre ; shrinkage, 39.68 per cent. 

 Joseph Goodrich's sample weighed, 3O3V pounds=86£| bushels 

 to the acre ; shrinkage, 39.93 per cent. Cyrus Kilburn's 

 sample weighed, 29^- pounds=83||- bushels to the acre ; 

 shrinkage, 50.16 per cent. The last lot grew on low black 

 land just above the meadow level, and the cold weather of 

 August, and the early frosts, somewhat injured the crop. 



The variety of corn planted on the fields above named was an 

 eight-rowed yellow corn known as the Carter corn, and a variety 

 similar to it. The average shrinkage of the four lots is about 

 42 per cent, from husking to dry shelled corn, thus requiring 



